Patent ID: 8769430
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for scrolling in a multiple-column page of a single document, comprising: displaying, from content within the single document, viewable columnar data of a plurality of columns of the multiple-column page of the single document in a display window; associating, using the viewable columnar data of each of multiple columns of the multi-column page of the single document, a single different scrollbar with each of the plurality of displayed columns of the single document, where each of the scrollbars is configurable for both synchronous operation and independent operation; and selectively enabling one of the synchronous operation and the independent operation of each of the scrollbars; where in the synchronous operation, detecting use of any of the scrollbars results in a corresponding scrolling of the multiple-column page of the single document within the display window, and where in the independent operation, detecting use of a selected one of the scrollbars results only in a corresponding scrolling of a column of the multiple-column page of the single document associated with that scrollbar within the display window.