DOUBLE SCROLLING

• US 20090177994A1
• Filed: 01/04/2005
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Buil, Vincentius Paulus, Hollemans, Gerrit, Van Leeuwen, Marco
• Application Number:
  US10/596,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20090177994A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A method of providing screen scrolling in content, such as hierarchically ordered content, is provided, wherein at least one level in the content comprises a page level comprising pages of objects and an object level comprising the objects, the method comprises the steps of: scrolling the objects page-by-page in the page level, and scrolling the objects object-by-object in the object level. Especially when scrolling in larger amounts of content, such as hierarchically ordered content, it is an advantage of interweaving a page by page level with an object by object level, so that the user may choose a specific level to navigate either page-wise or object-wise.

Claims

1. A method of providing screen scrolling in content, wherein at least one level in the content comprises a page level comprising pages of objects and an object level comprising the objects, the method comprises the steps of

scrolling the objects page-by-page in the page level, and

scrolling the objects object-by-object in the object level.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one level in the content comprises a predetermined number of objects, the page level comprises pages of a selected number of the predetermined number of objects, and the object level comprises the predetermined number of objects.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the selected number of the predetermined number of objects corresponds to the number of objects visible on a screen.

4. A method according to any of the preceding claim 1, wherein the page level scrolling and the object level scrolling are operated by same scrolling means.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the scrolling means are up/down arrows.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein a first level in the content comprises a number of first level objects and at least one of these first level objects comprises a page level and/or an object level.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein scrolling of the last of the predetermined number of objects in the page level and/or object level generates a shift to a subsequent object in the first level list.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the subsequent object in the first level list is immediate subsequent to the first object in the first level list.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein upon object by object scrolling of a last visible object of a first number of visible objects, a first page scrolling is provided so as to display a new number of visible objects.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the content is hierarchically ordered content.

11. A computer program product enabling a programmable device when executing said computer program product to function as a method as defined in claim 1.

12. A graphical user interface for displaying content, wherein the content comprises at least one page level comprising pages of objects and at least one object level comprising the objects, the page level and the object level being interwoven so as to allow a user to shift between levels in the content to provide page-by-page scrolling and object-by-object scrolling, respectively.

13. (canceled)

14. A method of providing screen scrolling in content, wherein the content comprises a first level list of objects and corresponding second level lists of objects (items or containers), each second level list comprising a predetermined number of objects and being associated with a first level object, the method comprises

selecting a first object in the first level list,

scrolling all but the last of the predetermined number of second level objects associated with the selected first object, object by object,

scrolling the last of the predetermined number of the second level objects by shifting to a second level list of objects associated with a second object in the first level list.