METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PAGE NAVIGATING USER INTERFACES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20090293009A1
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Molander, Mark E., Sluchak, Thomas J., Smith, Jeffrey J., Meserth, Timothy A., Windell, David T.
• Granted Patent: US 7,958,447 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A method for providing navigational control of paginated electronic information, includes: loading paginated information into an electronic device capable of displaying paginated information in response to a user'"'"'s selection; determining the total number of pages in the paginated information, and the number and page lengths of chapters, indexes, appendices, and prefaces; calibrating one or more page navigation controls based on the determined total number of pages in paginated document, and number and page length of chapters, indexes, appendices, prefaces; setting detents and resistance points on the navigation controls based on the calibration; changing displayed paginated content in response to the user'"'"'s positional touch of the one or more navigation controls; wherein the detents and resistance points are implemented virtually in navigational software, or physically with a series of elevations or ridges that interface with the navigational software; and the level of resistance varies in response to the paginated information.

Claims

1. A method for providing navigational control of paginated electronic information, the method comprising:

loading paginated information into an electronic device capable of displaying paginated information in response to a user'"'"'s selection;

determining the total number of pages in the paginated information, and the number and page lengths of chapters, indexes, appendices, and prefaces;

calibrating one or more page navigation controls that are formed with one or more touch pads, based on the determined total number of pages in paginated document, and number and page length of chapters, indexes, appendices, prefaces;

setting detents and resistance points on the one or more navigation controls based on the calibration;

changing displayed paginated content in response to the user'"'"'s positional touch of the one or more navigation controls;

wherein the detents and resistance points are implemented in at least one of;

virtually in navigational software, and physically with a series of elevations or ridges that interface with the navigational software; and

wherein the level of resistance of the detents and resistance points varies in response to location within and content of the paginated information.