Patent ID: 9552150
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A user interface control for scrolling a display of computer program data during retrieval of the computer program data by a computer program, the user interface control comprising: a track; an extendable scrollbar overlying the track; and a thumb button overlying the extendable scrollbar and movable within a variable length of the extendable scrollbar along the extendable scrollbar to scroll retrieved computer program data within a display area allocated to the computer program; and where a length of the track is indicative of a total amount of the computer program data being retrieved, the variable length of the extendable scrollbar increases in length along the length of the track as the computer program data is retrieved to indicate progress of the retrieval of the total amount of the computer program data, and a length of the thumb button is fixed based upon the total amount of the computer program data to be retrieved and indicates a ratio of an amount of the computer program data displayed within the display area relative to the total amount of computer program data being retrieved.