Patent ID: 8769438
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G16B

Abstract:
1. A method for navigating between a plurality of genealogical records, displayed on a touch-screen device, the method comprising: receiving a selection of a first genealogical record in the plurality of genealogical records; determining a plurality of familial records in the plurality of genealogical records that are related to the first genealogical record through one or more familial lines; determining a first display group comprised of the first genealogical record and a familial record in the one or more familial lines; determining a second display group comprises of a second familial record in a first familial line, wherein the second familial record in the second display group sequentially follows a familial record in the first display group; causing to be displayed on a touch screen of the touch-screen device, a first plurality of icons representing each familial record in the first display group, wherein each icon in the first plurality of icons is positioned according to the one or more familial lines such that each familial line forms a familial line direction, the first plurality of icons arranged in at least two sections defined by a dividing line; determining a direction from a finger gesture input from the touch screen of the touch-screen device; determining that one of the one or more familial lines corresponds to the direction of the finger gesture input; adding to the first display group, the second familial record from the second display group; adding to the second display group, a paternal familial record in the first familial line that follows after the second familial record in the second display group; adding to the second display group, a maternal record in a second familial line that follows after the second familial record in the second display group; causing to be displayed on the touch screen of the touch-screen device, an icon representing the paternal familial record added to the first display group when the finger gesture input begins in a first section of the at least two sections; and causing to be displayed on the touch screen of the touch-screen device, an icon representing the maternal familial record added to the first display group when the finger gesture input begins in a second section of the at least two sections.