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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2007
Kristina M. Voros, Redmond, WA (US);
Suzan Marashi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Veronica Y. Law, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc S. Oshiro, Seattle, WA (US);
Christen E. Coomer, Seattle, WA (US);
Frederic Azera, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kristina M. Voros, Redmond, WA (US);
Suzan Marashi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Veronica Y. Law, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc S. Oshiro, Seattle, WA (US);
Christen E. Coomer, Seattle, WA (US);
Frederic Azera, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a scrolling technology including a turbo-scroll mode that is automatically entered to increase the rate of scrolling through a set of items, (e.g., media content). The turbo-scroll mode may be triggered by holding down a scroll button for a period of time. In the turbo-scroll mode, visual cues are provided to assist the user in knowing a current relative position within the set of items. The visual cues may correspond to text metadata, such as letters indicative of an alphabetic position of scrolling, displaying a list or filtered sub-list of label data for items proximate the scroll position, a graphical position indicator, a channel indicator or time indicator for an electronic program guide, fading the electronic program guide into a background representation thereof, and/or providing at least two letters indicative of an alphabetic position of scrolling through the items.