PREDICTIVE SCROLLING

• US 20140157187A1
• Filed: 06/06/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: MeLLmo Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Mattos, Camilo, Kraut, Joel, Schaefer, Alex C., Becerra, Santiago, Cheng, Patrick, Zuluaga, Jaime
• Granted Patent: US 9,003,332 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/977 Dynamic icon, e.g. animated or live action

Abstract

A system and a method are disclosed for effectively displaying database records on a device having a display area that is small compared to the underlying data being represented. A simulated catalogue is displayed with cards associated with database records. Detailed information is presented for a record on a card obscuring information related to other records. A user is allowed to swipe on the catalogue causing simulated movement of the cards thereby displaying information associated with a database record previously obscured. The catalogue is moved with an initial velocity determined by the speed of swiping and decelerated based on a drag factor until it comes to a stop and displays information for the record reached. The ability to determine the final record displayed when the catalogue stops allows pre-fetching of the data associated with the record.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for graphically displaying database records on a display screen with limited display area, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of database records from a first perspective, a first subset of the plurality of database records at least partially obscured by a first record; and

responsive to a user input, animating the display to scroll through the database records;

determining a final record from the plurality of database records to display at a conclusion of the scrolling before the scrolling comes to the conclusion;

rendering an image comprising a graphical representation of a set of data corresponding to the final record before the scrolling comes to the conclusion;

and responsive to the conclusion of the scrolling, receiving the rendered image and displaying the rendered image such that the rendered image obscures at least partially a final subset of the plurality of database records.