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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2006
Frank E. Ludolph, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Braden F. Kowitz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jacob E. Pierson, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Jessica F. Smith, Keller, TX (US);
Aditya S. Chand, Uttaranchal, IN;
Chirag Nangia, Cambridge, MA (US);
Frank E. Ludolph, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Braden F. Kowitz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jacob E. Pierson, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Jessica F. Smith, Keller, TX (US);
Aditya S. Chand, Uttaranchal, IN;
Chirag Nangia, Cambridge, MA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system that displays content on a computer display. During operation, the system displays the content items within a display area on the computer display, wherein content items surrounding a current point of interest are displayed within a visible region of the display area. If the visible region has insufficient space to display some of the content items, the system selects a portion of the content items to be collapsed. Next, the system collapses the selected content items into one or more folds within the display area, wherein a fold is a compact representation of a contiguous group of adjacent content items and is located in place of the contiguous group of adjacent content items. For each fold, the system then displays a summary of the collapsed content items in the fold.