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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2000
Michael McGee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Victor Shao, Redwood City, CA (US);
David Abkowitz, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rushan Jiang, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ravi Jupudy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rodrigo Lima, Foster City, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for presenting a list of items to a user via a device having a limited display capability. In general, the number of items in the list may be much greater than the device can display at once. A list module is configured to receive a list of items and determine the number of items, or ranges of items, that may be displayed at once. If the list contains too many items to be displayed on one card, the list module divides them into groups nearly equal in size, so that to display any one item requires the same or nearly the same number of cards. Until each range is less than or equal to the number of items that can be displayed simultaneously, the list module presents (e.g., transmits to the device) cards having successively smaller ranges. Eventually a card will have few enough items to be displayed individually, and the user may make a final selection.