Computer based browsing computer program product, system and method
First Claim
1. A method for displaying a computer-based set of information on a display screen, comprising the steps of:
- displaying, on the display screen, said set of information as a book image, respective portions of said set of information being displayed as an open page of said book image that overlaps another page that was previously moved from a first side of said book image to a second side of said book image, and open pages of said book image remain at a fixed location with respect to said display screen as different pages of said book image are displayed; and
displaying, on the display screen, a thickness image of said book image corresponding to an amount of said information on a left side and a right side of said display screen, a left portion of said thickness image displayed on said left side of said screen being proportional to a first amount of the information preceding a point in said set of information currently being displayed and a right portion of said thickness image displayed on said right side of said display screen being proportional to a second amount of information following the point in said set of information currently being displayed.
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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.
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31 Claims
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1. A method for displaying a computer-based set of information on a display screen, comprising the steps of:
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displaying, on the display screen, said set of information as a book image, respective portions of said set of information being displayed as an open page of said book image that overlaps another page that was previously moved from a first side of said book image to a second side of said book image, and open pages of said book image remain at a fixed location with respect to said display screen as different pages of said book image are displayed; and displaying, on the display screen, a thickness image of said book image corresponding to an amount of said information on a left side and a right side of said display screen, a left portion of said thickness image displayed on said left side of said screen being proportional to a first amount of the information preceding a point in said set of information currently being displayed and a right portion of said thickness image displayed on said right side of said display screen being proportional to a second amount of information following the point in said set of information currently being displayed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 29)
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16. A method for displaying a computer-based set of information on a display screen, comprising the steps of:
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displaying, on the display screen, said set of information as a book image, respective portions of said set of information being displayed as an open page of said book image that overlaps another page that was previously moved from a first side of said book image to a second side of said book image, and displaying, on the display screen, two or more than two flipping pages simultaneously. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31)
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