DYNAMIC THUMBNAILS FOR DOCUMENT NAVIGATION

A "Spatial Navigator" provides a document navigation environment that leverages user spatial memory. Graphical thumbnail-type representations ("thumbnails") provide scaled versions of entire documents. Changes to documents are immediately reflected in corresponding thumbnails. Si...

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Main Authors MEYERS BRIAN R, CZERWINSKI MARY, DELINE ROBERT, VENOLIA GINA, ROBERTSON GEORGE G, DRUCKER STEVEN M
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.05.2008
Subjects
ADVERTISING
ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
CRYPTOGRAPHY
DISPLAY
EDUCATION
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
SEALS
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Summary:A "Spatial Navigator" provides a document navigation environment that leverages user spatial memory. Graphical thumbnail-type representations ("thumbnails") provide scaled versions of entire documents. Changes to documents are immediately reflected in corresponding thumbnails. Similarly, document search results are highlighted in corresponding thumbnails. One or more dynamic document selection windows present arrangements of a plurality of these thumbnails for user selection and interaction. Each dynamic document selection window provides real-time inter-file navigation by allowing user selection and opening of documents, or any location or portion of a document, through user interaction with the corresponding thumbnail. Once a document is opened, intra-file navigation is enhanced by providing another scaled version of the entire document in a dynamic scrollbar adjacent to a primary document editing/viewing window. Selection of any point within this scrollbar-based thumbnail causes an immediate jump to the corresponding document location in the primary document editing/viewing window.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20060553986