SKIPPING THROUGH ELECTRONIC CONTENT ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20120023462A1
• Filed: 02/23/2010
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Wong, Glenn A., Rosing, Dustin C., Hoang, Sam, Wolfe, Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 8,850,360 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/14 Electronic books and readers

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for skipping through electronic content displayed on an electronic device having a touchscreen display coupled to a processing engine. According to one embodiment, a multi-touch gesture is received from a user. Based on the user'"'"'s multi-touch gesture, electronic content associated with digital media immediately advances to a subsequent section or immediately reverses back to a previous section of the digital media.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for skipping through electronic content displayed on an electronic device having touchscreen display coupled to a processing engine, the method comprising:

receiving, via a graphical user interface coupled to the processing engine, a multi-touch gesture from a user;

causing, via the processing engine, electronic content associated with digital media to immediately advance to a subsequent section of the digital media or immediately reverse back to the beginning of a previous section of the digital media based on the multi-touch gesture of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-touch gesture includes a movement of at least two fingers simultaneously and horizontally from one side of the touchscreen display to an opposite side of the touchscreen display.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the electronic content is electronic text and the digital media is an electronic book or electronic periodical.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the section is a multi-page chapter of an electronic book or a multi-page article of an electronic periodical.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from right to left, then the processing engine causes the electronic book to skip ahead from a current chapter to a chapter immediately after the current chapter.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from right to left, then the processing engine causes the electronic periodical to skip ahead. from a current article to an article immediately after the current article.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from left to right, then the processing engine causes the electronic book to skip back from a current chapter to a chapter immediately before the current chapter, or the processing engine causes the electronic book to skip back to the beginning of the current chapter if the electronic hook is not displaying the first page of the current chapter upon receiving the multi-touch gesture from the user.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from left to right, then the processing engine causes the electronic periodical to skip back from a current article back to an article immediately before the current article, or the processing engine causes the electronic periodical to skip back to the beginning of the current article if the electronic periodical is not displaying the first page upon receiving the multi-touch gesture from the user.

9. An electronic device comprising:

a processing engine coupled to a touchscreen display for displaying electronic content associated with electronic media;

a graphical user interface coupled to the processing engine and configured to process multi-touch gestures received from a user;

wherein the processing engine is configured to advance to a next section of the electronic media or reverse back to a previous section of the electronic media based on the multi-touch gestures of the user.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the multi-touch gesture includes a simultaneous movement of at least two fingers horizontally from the one side of the touchscreen display to an opposite side of the touchscreen display.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the electronic content is electronic text and the digital media is an electronic book or electronic periodical, and

wherein the section is a multi-page chapter of an electronic book or a multi-page article of an electronic periodical.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from right to left, then the processing engine causes the electronic book to skip ahead from a current chapter to a chapter immediately after the current chapter.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from right to left, then the processing engine causes the electronic periodical to skip ahead from a current article to an article immediately after the current article.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from left to right, then the processing engine causes the electronic book to skip back from a current chapter to a chapter immediately before the current chapter, or the processing engine causes the electronic book to skip back to the beginning of the current chapter if the electronic book is not displaying the first page of the current chapter upon receiving the multi-touch gesture from the user.

15. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein if the movement of the multi-touch gesture is from left to right, then the processing engine causes the electronic periodical to skip back from a current article back to an article immediately before the current article, or the processing engine causes the electronic periodical to skip back to the beginning of the current article if the electronic periodical is not displaying the first page of the current section upon receiving the multi-touch gesture from the user.