Page turning facility

• US 5,870,092 A
• Filed: 01/09/1997
• Issued: 02/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Bedford-Roberts, James
• Primary Examiner(s): HUYNH, BA
• Application Number:
  US08/765,805
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 345/348, 345/349, 345/350, 345/173, 345/177
• US Class Current: 715/776
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0225 User interface arrangements, e.g. keyboard, display; Interfaces to other computer systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A device for storing information electronically and which has a pen-sensitive screen enabling a user to make freehand input has the screen divided into two areas--a main area and a subsidiary area adjacent the main area.

The user can tag items of freehand input causing a tag item to be displayed alongside the freehand input and can subsequently manipulate (eg delete, move, copy) the freehand input by selecting and manipulating the associated tag item.

Tag items provide a permanent way of structuring data and are an elegant way of uniting several data manipulations.

Claims

1. A device for displaying pages of electronically stored information comprising a static symbol situated outside the active display area for enabling a user to browse the information in a page turning mode, wherein the symbol has a plurality of page delimiters, the device being configured so that traversal of each page delimiter causes a predetermined number of pages to be turned.

2. A device according to claim 1 wherein the predetermined number is one.

3. A device according to claim 1 wherein traversal of a page delimiter causes tactile feedback to be provided to the user.

4. A device according to claim 3 wherein the page delimiters are ridges.

5. A device according to claim 3 wherein the page delimiters are indentations.

6. A device according to claim 1 wherein the symbol depicts an open book.

7. A device according to claim 1 wherein the symbol is situated beside a display screen of the device.

8. A device according to claim 1 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.

9. A device according to claim 2 wherein traversal of a page delimiter causes tactile feedback to be provided to the user.

10. A device according to claim 2 wherein the symbol depicts an open book.

11. A device according to claim 3 wherein the symbol depicts an open book.

12. A device according to claim 4 wherein the symbol depicts an open book.

13. A device according to claim 5 wherein the symbol depicts an open book.

14. A device according to claim 2 wherein the symbol is situated beside a display screen of the device.

15. A device according to claim 3 wherein the symbol is situated beside a display screen of the device.

16. A device according to claim 4 wherein the symbol is situated beside a display screen of the device.

17. A device according to claim 5 wherein the symbol is situated beside a display screen of the device.

18. A device according to claim 6 wherein the symbol is situated beside a display screen of the device.

19. A device according to claim 2 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.

20. A device according to claim 3 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.

21. A device according to claim 4 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.

22. A device according to claim 5 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.

23. A device according to claim 6 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.

24. A device according to claim 7 comprising means enabling a user to select a position relative to the symbol so as to cause a page at a corresponding position in the sequence of stored electronic information to be displayed.