Patent ID: 9285978
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for using a scroll bar in a multiple panel user interface, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer-readable hardware storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable hardware storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine that two or more panels are displayed on a user interface, the two or more panels being operated by a same scroll bar; program instructions to detect a cursor movement over the same scroll bar; responsive to the cursor movement over the same scroll bar, program instructions to display an icon; program instructions to receive an active panel selection via the icon; program instructions to indicate that the selected panel is active; program instructions to detect movement of the same scroll bar on the selected active panel; program instructions to scroll a displayed content of the selected active panel corresponding to the movement of the same scroll bar; program instructions to save a position of the displayed content and corresponding position of the same scroll bar within the active panel; responsive to subsequent selection of the panel, program instructions to display the saved position of the displayed content and corresponding position of the same scroll bar; and program instructions to proportion a length of the scroll bar in the icon to the saved position of said same scroll bar within the respective active panel.