Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Navigating through an Electronic Document

• US 20120192068A1
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Migos, Charles J., Capela, Jay Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,552,015 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface stores a document having primary content, supplementary content, and user-generated content. The device displays a representation of the document in a segmented user interface on the display. Primary content of the document is displayed in a first segment of the segmented user interface and supplementary content of the document is concurrently displayed in a second segment of the segmented user interface distinct from the first segment. The device receives a request to view user-generated content of the document. In response to the request, the device maintains display of the previously displayed primary content, ceases to display at least a portion of the previously displayed supplementary content, and displays user-generated content of the document in a third segment of the segmented user interface distinct from the first segment and the second segment.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

concurrently displaying a first portion of a document and a navigation bar for navigating through the document;

detecting a gesture at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a portion of the navigation bar associated with a second portion of the document, wherein the second portion of the document includes a respective annotation; and

in response to detecting the gesture, while continuing to display the first portion of the document, displaying, at a location proximate to the portion of the navigation bar, a representation of the second portion of the document that includes a representation of the respective annotation.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the representation of the second portion is displayed in a callout that covers at least a sub-region of the first portion of the document.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the representation of the second portion includes a section title for the second portion.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the representation of the second portion includes a representative image from the second portion.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the respective annotation is highlighting of text and the representation of the respective annotation includes the highlighted text.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the respective annotation is a note and the representation of the respective annotation includes text of the note.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the respective annotation is a bookmark and the representation of the respective annotation includes a bookmark icon.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein

the second portion of the document is a respective page of the document;

and

the representation of the second portion of the document includes a thumbnail image of the respective page with a representation of the respective annotation displayed in the thumbnail image.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein

the document includes a plurality of pages;

and

the representation of the second portion of the document includes representations of two or more pages in the document.

10. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface;

concurrently displaying a first portion of a document and a navigation bar for navigating through the document;

detecting a gesture at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a portion of the navigation bar associated with a second portion of the document, wherein the second portion of the document includes a respective annotation; and

in response to detecting the gesture, while continuing to display the first portion of the document, displaying, at a location proximate to the portion of the navigation bar, a representation of the second portion of the document that includes a representation of the respective annotation.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which, when executed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

concurrently display a first portion of a document and a navigation bar for navigating through the document;

detect a gesture at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a portion of the navigation bar associated with a second portion of the document, wherein the second portion of the document includes a respective annotation; and

in response to detecting the gesture, while continuing to display the first portion of the document, display, at a location proximate to the portion of the navigation bar, a representation of the second portion of the document that includes a representation of the respective annotation.

12. A graphical user interface on an electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, a memory, and one or more processors to execute one or more programs stored in the memory, the graphical user interface comprising:

concurrent display of;

a first portion of a document and a navigation bar for navigating through the document;

wherein, in response to detecting a gesture at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a portion of the navigation bar associated with a second portion of the document, the second portion of the document including a respective annotation, a representation of the second portion of the document that includes a representation of the respective annotation is displayed, while continuing to display the first portion of the document, at a location proximate to the portion of the navigation bar.