Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
Scrolling mechanism is used to display and edit large
documents in a limited screen space or window. The scrolling mechanism may
include a vertical scroll bar or a horizontal scroll bar or both to move the
contents of the documents up and down or left and right. There may be
navigation buttons on the screen representing the navigation keys on the
keyboard. The user can click these buttons to scroll the screen.
There may be very different methods of scrolling such as by
using the “thumb”, as popularly used with a PDF document. Scrolling may be
achieved through eyeball tracking in a hands-free environment where the user
does not have hands or wants to use hands for other activities. This article
illustrates ten interesting inventions on scrolling selected from US patent
database.
Keywords: TRIZ, Software Inventions, Graphical User
Interface, Software inventions, Software Patents, Inventive Problem Solving,
GUI, Scrolling, Scrollbar, Sidebars
Mishra, Umakant, 10
Inventions on Scrolling and Scrollbars in Graphical User Interface. (December
6, 2006), Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=949243
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