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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2015
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan W. Terleski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shaun Z. Modi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cameron Knox Adams, Rozelle, AU;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes displaying a scrollable sequence of content items, the content items having a plurality of sources and a plurality of content types; in response to user commands, scrolling the scrollable sequence of content items in a direction parallel to a first axis; visually indicating a first focus item in the scrollable sequence and displaying in the current focus item an affordance including a related-content affordance; and responding to user selection of the related-content affordance in the current focus item by scrolling the current focus item in a direction parallel to a second axis that is distinct from the first axis and displaying a second focus item in place of the first focus item, the second focus item including a content item of one or more content items related to the first focus item in accordance with predefined criteria.