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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Phillip R Tiongson, New York, NY (US);
Louis Weitzman, Brookline, MA (US);
Jessica Wu, Danbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/34 ;
Abstract
A method and system to provide a user additional positional context for the information they are browsing and allows for rapid browsing through large data sets thereby providing a more usable interface. Two embodiments are described in the following sections. In the first, the 2-D scroll area is a continuous area. In this continuous embodiment the user can change the scroll resolution on a continuous scale. The second embodiment uses a set of discrete vertical scrolling bars. These scrolling bars work in concert to fine tune the scrolling access to the data.