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Patent No.:

US 7574668 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2004
Applicants:

Loic Nunez, Montfavet, FR;

Nadine Patry, Rennes, FR;

Inventors:

Loic Nunez, Montfavet, FR;

Nadine Patry, Rennes, FR;

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

This invention discloses a process for navigation within a set of audiovisual documents with the help of a displayed menu system. A graphical page is displayed, it contains at least two, possibly unitary, lists, Land Lof elements associated with audiovisual documents, each element being disposed in a graphical window. Subsequent to a navigation command entered by the user, the graphical window containing a so-called 'current' element of the starting list Lbecomes mobile and moves to at least one arrival list Lin the direction specified by the command, the duration of the movement being at least equal to the duration of the execution of the command. The invention also relates to a device able to execute a software navigation module. Following the entry of a command, the said module moves a graphical window in a certain direction and for a determined calculation time.


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