Patent ID: 9600156
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for enhancing a selection region for select information associated within a document, the method comprising: analyzing, by a processing unit in the data processing system, a document to determine one or more pieces of information in the document that are likely to be selected by the user, wherein the one or more pieces of information are less than all of the information in the document; responsive to the document failing to have been analyzed before, enlarging, by the processing unit, the selection region associated with each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information by a first predetermined size amount thereby forming a respective region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information; recording, by the processing unit, the region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information; responsive to the user stopping a scrolling of the document for greater than a predetermined time period, further enlarging, by the processing unit, the selection region associated with each piece of information of the one or more pieces of information currently displayed on the screen by a second predetermined size amount thereby forming a new region enlargement value for each piece of information of the one or more pieces of information currently displayed on the screen; and recording, by the processing unit, the new region enlargement value for each piece of information of the one or more pieces of information currently displayed on the screen.