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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Chak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xinxing Gu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Virgil Scott King, Arlington, MA (US);
C. J. Scott Dougall, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A client (e.g., an eReader) includes a reader application module for presenting content to a user of the client. The reader application module displays an interface including a plurality of pages of a digital content to a user of a client. The reader application module identifies a point of interest included in a page of the plurality of pages of the digital content and assigns a physics model to the identified point of interest. The physics model may be selected from a plurality of physics models based on a type of the point of interest. The reader application module receiving an interaction from the user wanting to skim through the plurality of pages of the digital content and applies the physics model responsive to receiving the interaction from the user.