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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2000
Stuart Kent Card, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, Iii, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allison Gyle Woodruff, Foster City, CA (US);
Jock Douglas Mackinlay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stuart Kent Card, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allison Gyle Woodruff, Foster City, CA (US);
Jock Douglas MacKinlay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having a plurality of virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the display system. Information relating to the virtual three-dimensional book may be displayed on an edge of the virtual three-dimensional book. This information may comprise a table image, meta-data about references in the book, information about the organizational structure of the book, or graphical data. Additionally, several columns or rows of information may be displayed on the virtual book edge, each column or row being selectively expandable and contractible. Moreover, a virtual three-dimensional book may be displayed in a way that bears a metaphorical relationship to the contents of the virtual three-dimensional book. Also disclosed is a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for producing images of a virtual three-dimensional book.