Loading Content on Electronic Device

• US 20140137030A1
• Filed: 11/14/2012
• Published: 05/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Matas, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,081,410 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/00 Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

In one embodiment, as a user is scrolling through a first series of content items and reaches the nth content items from the first series of content items, display a visual indication that there are additional content items from the first series of content items existing after the nth content item. Upon receiving a first user input, enable the user to scroll through the additional content items existing after the nth content item. Upon receiving a second user input, enable the user to scroll through a second series of content items.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a client computing device, receiving user input to scroll through a first plurality of content items, the first plurality of content items comprising one or more first content items that have been downloaded to the client computing device and one or more second content items that have not been downloaded to the client computing device;

by the client computing device, in response to the user input, scrolling through the first plurality of content items in a forward direction and reaching a last one of the first content items from the first plurality of content items;

by the client computing device;

in response to a first user input, downloading by the client computing device one or more of the second content items from the first plurality of content items and enabling the user to scroll through the second content items from the first plurality of content items;

by the client computing device, in response to a second user input, enabling the user to scroll to a second plurality of content items.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

scrolling to a second plurality of content items comprises starting from a first content item from the second plurality of content items.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a first visual indication that there are second content items from the first plurality of content items existing after the last one of the first content items, wherein the first visual indication represents a stack of folded paper.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first visual indication is positioned between the last one of the first content items from the first plurality of content items and a first content item from the second plurality of content items.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user input comprises pressing a button presented for display by the client computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second user input comprises a swiping gesture.

7-18. -18. (canceled)

19. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

receive, at a client computing device, user input to scroll through a first plurality of content items, the first plurality of content items comprising one or more first content items that have been downloaded to the client computing device and one or more second content items that have not been downloaded to the client computing device;

in response to the user input, scroll through the first plurality of content items in a forward direction and reach a last one of the first content items from the first plurality of content items;

in response to a first user input, download at the client computing device one or more of the second content items from the first plurality of content items and enable the user to scroll through the second content items from the first plurality of content items;

in response to a second user input, enable the user to scroll to a second plurality of content items.

20. The media of claim 19, wherein scrolling to a second plurality of content items comprises starting from a first content item from the second plurality of content items.

21. The media of claim 19, the software further operable when executed to display a first visual indication that there are second content items from the first plurality of content items existing after the last one of the first content items, wherein the first visual indication represents a stack of folded paper.

22. The media of claim 21, wherein the first visual indication is positioned between the last one of the first content items from the first plurality of content items and a first content item from the second plurality of content items.

23. The media of claim 19, wherein the first user input comprises pressing a button presented for display by the client computing device.

24. The media of claim 19, wherein the second user input comprises a swiping gesture.

25. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to;

receive, at a client computing device, user input to scroll through a first plurality of content items, the first plurality of content items comprising one or more first content items that have been downloaded to the client computing device and one or more second content items that have not been downloaded to the client computing device;

in response to the user input, scroll through the first plurality of content items in a forward direction and reach a last one of the first content items from the first plurality of content items;

in response to a first user input, download at the client computing device one or more of the second content items from the first plurality of content items and enable the user to scroll through the second content items from the first plurality of content items;

in response to a second user input, enable the user to scroll to a second plurality of content items.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein scrolling to a second plurality of content items comprises starting from a first content item from the second plurality of content items.

27. The system of claim 25, the processors further operable when executing the instructions to display a first visual indication that there are second content items from the first plurality of content items existing after the last one of the first content items, wherein the first visual indication represents a stack of folded paper.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the first visual indication is positioned between the last one of the first content items from the first plurality of content items and a first content item from the second plurality of content items.

29. The system of claim 25, wherein the first user input comprises pressing a button presented for display by the client computing device.

30. The system of claim 25, wherein the second user input comprises a swiping gesture.