Computer based browsing computer program product, system and method

• US 7,079,111 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2002
• Issued: 07/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sino Star Global Ltd.
• Original Assignee: E-BOOK SYSTEMS PTE. LTD.
• Inventors: Ho, Seng Beng
• Primary Examiner(s): WU, XIAO MIN
• Application Number:
  US10/262,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20030030673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-158, 345163-169, 715700-702, 715775-779, 361681-684, 705/14
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0339 Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• 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

Abstract

A computer based browsing computer program product, system and method arranges a set of information hosted on a computer into a book or a set of books, where each book includes a subset of the set of information, labels each book with a respective portion of the subset of the set of information, and selects a book from the set of books. Selecting the book from the set of books includes steps of displaying the respective portions of the books as a book document image that includes pages which correspond to the respective portions of the books, generating a command for moving through the pages, displaying an animated image of the pages of the book document being at least one of flipped, scrolled, slid and flashed images, and selecting the book when a selected one of the pages containing a selection portion of the book is earlier displayed.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform an operation for displaying a portion of a set of information stored in a computer readable memory as a book image format, said portion corresponding to browsing commands output from a user-actuated browsing device, by performing the steps of:

arranging a set of information hosted on a computer into a set of books, each book of said set of books comprising a subset of said set of information;

labeling each book with a respective portion of said subset of said set of information; and

selecting a selected book from the set of books, said selecting step comprising,

displaying said respective portions of said books as book document images comprising pages, said pages corresponding to said respective portions of said books,

generating a command for moving through said pages,

displaying an animated image of said pages of said book document being at least one of flipped, scrolled, slid and flashed, on a display, and

selecting said book when one of said pages containing a predetermined portion of said book is displayed in said displaying step.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1 whose contents, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform additional steps of:

identifying a selected book page of a set of book pages within said selected book, comprising the steps of,

displaying the selected book as the image of the book document,

generating a move command for moving a pointer through a subset of pages of said selected book,

displaying an animated image of said pages in said book document being at least one of flipped, scrolled, slid and flashed in said display, and

selecting said selected book page in said selected book when the selected book page is displayed in said step of displaying an animated image of pages in said book.

3. A computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform an operation for displaying a portion of a set of information stored in a computer readable memory in a book format image, said portion corresponding to browsing commands output from a user-actuated browsing device, by performing the steps of:

generating a command to move a pointer through said set of information;

moving said pointer in at least one of a forward direction and a backward direction through said computer-based set of information in response to said command generated in said generating step;

adjusting a speed of said movement of said pointer through said computer-based set of information corresponding to said command generated in said generating step;

jumping to a selected location in said computer-based set of information, said jumping step comprising the steps of,

receiving a jump command, and

moving said pointer from a current position in said computer-based set information to a user-defined jump position; and

bookmarking a desired portion of said computer-based set of information, said desired portion comprising a selected subset of a text or a graphics information, said bookmarking step comprising the steps of,

receiving a bookmark command via a user-entry, and

marking said desired portion of said computer-based set of information corresponding to said user entry.