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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2011
Applicant:

Jeffrey Allen Sharkey, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jeffrey Allen Sharkey, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06T 13/00 (2011.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 13/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/217 (2013.01); G06F 17/212 (2013.01); G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06T 13/00 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 13/80 (2013.01);
Abstract

In general, this disclosure describes techniques for visually emphasizing information displayed on a computing device. In one example, a method that includes receiving a first portion of a document for display by the computing device, the first portion of the document including multiple elements separated by one or more delimiters. The method further includes dividing the multiple elements into a first set of one or more elements, each of which is displayable in its entirety at a time of display of the first portion of the document, and a second set of at least one element, the at least one element not displayable in its entirety at the time of display of the first portion of the document. The method further includes generating for display the first portion of the document, including visually emphasizing the first set of elements with respect to the second set of elements.


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