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

• US 20120192118A1
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2011
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Migos, Charles J., Capela, Jay Christopher
• Application Number:
  US13/077,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20120192118A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• 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;

storing a document having a plurality of features having respective locations within the document, the plurality of features including features of a first feature type in a first sequence and features of a second feature type in a second sequence, wherein the second feature type is distinct from the first feature type;

displaying at least a portion of the document on the display;

detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the first gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a single contact gesture, navigating to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the first feature type in the document; and

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a multi-contact gesture with a first predefined number of contacts, navigating to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the second feature type in the document.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the first feature type is a page or a page break.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the second feature type is one of:

a section, a section break, a chapter, a chapter break or an annotation.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the first gesture is a swipe gesture.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the multi-contact gesture is a two contact swipe gesture and the second type of feature is a section break.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the multi-contact gesture is a two contact swipe gesture and the second type of feature is a chapter break.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the multi-contact gesture is a three contact swipe gesture and the second type of feature is an annotation.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the first gesture has a direction;

in accordance with a determination that the direction of the gesture includes a component in a first direction, the sequentially adjacent feature is an immediately subsequent feature; and

in accordance with a determination that the direction of the gesture includes a component in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, the sequentially adjacent feature is an immediately preceding feature.

9. A method, comprising:

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

storing a document having a plurality of features having respective locations within the document, the plurality of features including features of a first feature type in a first sequence and features of a second feature type in a second sequence, wherein the second feature type is distinct from the first feature type;

displaying at least a portion of the document on the display;

detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the first gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a single contact gesture, navigating to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the first feature type in the document; and

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a multi-contact gesture with a first predefined number of contacts, navigating to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the second feature type in the document.

10. 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:

store a document having a plurality of features having respective locations within the document, the plurality of features including features of a first feature type in a first sequence and features of a second feature type in a second sequence, wherein the second feature type is distinct from the first feature type;

display at least a portion of the document on the display;

detect a first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and

in response to detecting the first gesture;

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a single contact gesture, navigate to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the first feature type in the document; and

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a multi-contact gesture with a first predefined number of contacts, navigate to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the second feature type in the document.

11. 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:

display of at least a portion of a document, the document having a plurality of features having respective locations within the document, the plurality of features including features of a first feature type in a first sequence and features of a second feature type in a second sequence, wherein the second feature type is distinct from the first feature type;

wherein, in response to detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface;

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a single contact gesture, the document is navigated to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the first feature type in the document; and

in accordance with a determination that the first gesture is a multi-contact gesture with a first predefined number of contacts, the document is navigated to a portion of the document that includes or is located proximate to a sequentially adjacent feature of the second feature type in the document.