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Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2017
Applicant:

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Simon Corsin, New York, NY (US);

Richard Arnold, Hoboken, NJ (US);

Michel Loenngren, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Kevin Markman, New York, NY (US);

Jason J. Mante, New York, NY (US);

Adam Feldman, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06T 13/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01); G06T 13/80 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are described that include providing, on a touchscreen display of an electronic device, a stream of content items, at least some of which are associated with a corresponding display anchor. Inputs are detected at the touchscreen display and the inputs are associated with a scroll speed. The scroll speed may be based on a detected distance between the inputs on the touchscreen and an elapsed time between at least two of the inputs. In response to determining a lack of input for a predefined time period, a display anchor can be determined and selected. The display anchor may correspond to a content item to be used as a pause location for the stream. The scrolling of the stream of content items can be paused at the pause location to use the selected display anchor to display the content item in a top viewable portion of the display.


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