Display navigation using navigation controls

• US 9,041,737 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lira, Luigi
• Primary Examiner(s): Amini, Javid A
• Application Number:
  US13/730,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20130139098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 345/629, 345/619, 345/419
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 1/00 Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with cathode-ray tube indicators; General aspects or details, e.g. selection emphasis on particular characters, dashed line or dotted line generation; Preprocessing of datacathode-ray oscilloscopes G01R13/20; radar display arrangements G01S7/04; display of digital non-picture data in television systems H04N7/0255

Abstract

Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position of the visible portion of the page of information on the display is constrained if the motion does not exceed the threshold.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing an electronic document comprising a plurality of predefined portions;

presenting, by way of a touchscreen, a display area of the electronic document, the display area comprising at least part of a first predefined portion of the plurality of predefined portions and at least part of a second predefined portion of the plurality of predefined portions;

detecting, using at least one processor, a user interaction with the first predefined portion, wherein the user interaction comprises a touch input provided by way of the touchscreen with respect to the first predefined portion; and

moving, in response to the detected user interaction, the display area relative to the electronic document until the sides of the display area are aligned with the sides of the first predefined portion to focus the display area on the first predefined portion.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting, by way of the touchscreen, one or more selectable graphical interface elements.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more selectable graphical interface elements comprise one or more selectable icons.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements corresponds to one of the plurality of predefined portions of the electronic document.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements is linked to a predefined portion from the plurality of predefined portions and is operable to move the display area to the linked predefined portion.

19. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements comprises a graphical representation of a corresponding predefined portion from the plurality of predefined portions.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the graphical representation graphically depicts at least one of a shape of the corresponding predefined portion or a size of the corresponding predefined portion.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the graphical representation graphically depicts a relative position of the corresponding predefined portion within the electronic document.

22. The method of claim 19, further comprising presenting the one or more selectable graphical interface elements in a sequential order that corresponds to an order of the plurality of predefined portions within the electronic document.

23. The method of claim 19, further comprising presenting the one or more selectable graphical interface elements in an arrangement corresponding to an arrangement of the plurality of predefined portions within the electronic document.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the arrangement of the plurality of predefined portions is from left to right within the electronic document.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the plurality of predefined portions comprises a plurality of columns.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein each of the plurality of predefined portions comprises at least one of text or an image.

27. The method of claim 23, wherein a right-most selectable graphical interface element from the one or more selectable graphical interface elements corresponds to a right-most or last predefined portion within the electronic document, and wherein a left-most selectable graphical interface element from the one or more selectable graphical interface elements corresponds to a left-most or first predefined portion within the electronic document.

28. The method of claim 23, wherein the one or more selectable graphical interface elements are presented proximate a bottom of the display area.

29. The method of claim 1, wherein moving the display area relative to the electronic document to focus the display area on the first predefined portion of the electronic document comprises changing a position of the display area relative to the electronic document until only the first predefined portion of the electronic document is viewable within the display area.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein moving the display area relative to the electronic document to focus the display area on the first predefined portion of the electronic document further comprises centering the display area relative to the first predefined portion of the electronic document.

31. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch input is independent of a link within the electronic document.

34. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch input comprises a touch and drag touch input.

35. The method of claim 1, further comprising snapping the display area into horizontal alignment with the first predefined portion.

36. The method of claim 1, wherein moving the display area relative to the electronic document to focus the display area on the first predefined portion comprises:

changing a position of the display area relative to the electronic document until only the first predefined portion of the electronic document is viewable within the display area; and

centering the display area relative to the first predefined portion of the electronic document.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computer system to:

access an electronic document comprising a plurality of predefined portions;

present, by way of a touchscreen, a display area of the electronic document, the display area comprising at least part of a first predefined portion of the plurality of predefined portions and at least part of a second predefined portion of the plurality of predefined portions;

detect a user interaction with the first predefined portion, wherein the user interaction comprises a touch input provided by way of the touchscreen with respect to the first predefined portion; and

move, in response to the detected user interaction, the display area relative to the electronic document until the sides of the display area are aligned with the sides of the first predefined portion to focus the display area on the first predefined portion.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to present one or more selectable graphical interface elements.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more selectable graphical interface elements comprise one or more selectable icons.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements corresponds to one of the plurality of predefined portions of the electronic document.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements is linked to a predefined portion from the plurality of predefined portions of the electronic document and is operable to move the display area to the linked predefined portion of the electronic document.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computer system to:

detect a number of the plurality of predefined portions of the electronic document; and

present a number of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements equal to the detected number of the plurality of predefined portions of the electronic document.

32. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein moving the display area relative to the electronic document to focus the display area on the first predefined portion of the electronic document comprises:

changing a position of the display area relative to the electronic document until only the first predefined portion of the electronic document is viewable within the display area; and

centering the display area relative to the first predefined portion of the electronic document.

37. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the touch input comprises a touch and drag touch input.

12. A device comprising:

a touch screen display;

at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium; and

at least one processor that executes instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium to cause the device to;

access an electronic document comprising a plurality of predefined portions;

present, by way of a touchscreen, a display area of the electronic document, the display area comprising at least part of a first predefined portion of the plurality of predefined portions and at least part of a second predefined portion of the plurality of predefined portions;

detect a user interaction with the first predefined portion, wherein the user interaction comprises a touch input provided by way of the touchscreen with respect to the first predefined portion; and

move, in response to the detected user interaction, the display area relative to the electronic document until the sides of the display area are aligned with the sides of the first predefined portion to focus the display area on the first predefined portion.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor further executes instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium to cause the device to present one or more selectable graphical interface elements.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements corresponds to one of the plurality of predefined portions of the electronic document.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein each of the one or more selectable graphical interface elements is linked to a predefined portion from the plurality of predefined portions and is operable to move the display area to the linked predefined portion.

16. The device of claim 12, wherein the electronic document comprises a web page.

17. The device of claim 12, wherein moving the display area relative to the electronic document to focus the display area on the first predefined portion comprises changing a position of the display area relative to the electronic document until only the first predefined portion of the electronic document is viewable within the display area.

18. The device of claim 12, wherein detecting the user interaction comprises detecting contact of an input tool on the touchscreen relative to the first predefined portion.

33. The device of claim 12, wherein moving the display area relative to the electronic document to focus the display area on the first predefined portion of the electronic document comprises:

changing a position of the display area relative to the electronic document until only the first predefined portion of the electronic document is viewable within the display area; and

centering the display area relative to the first predefined portion of the electronic document.

38. The device of claim 12, wherein the touch input comprises a touch and drag touch input.