Patent ID: 7689928
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a selection of a portion of a document; receiving a command to mark the selection of the portion of the document with a reference mark; placing the reference mark in a scrollbar, the scrollbar associated with the document, wherein the reference mark indicates the selected portion of the document, and wherein a graphical placement of the reference mark in the scrollbar corresponds to a relative position of the selection of the portion in the document; receiving a selection of a first reference mark located on the scrollbar, changing a display of the document in a window on a display device so that at least a beginning of a first portion of the document indicated by the first reference mark is displayed in the window on the display device; receiving a selection of a second reference mark with the input device at a time of selection of the first reference mark, the second reference mark located on the scrollbar, the second reference mark indicating a second portion of the document that is not contiguous with the first portion of the document indicated by the first reference mark; making the indicated portions of the document available for editing operations according to an order that the selected reference marks were selected from the scrollbar, without making available for editing operations portions of the document in between the indicated portions; receiving, in a particular order, a selection of multiple reference marks located on the scrollbar associated with the document, at least two of the selected reference marks indicating portions on the document that are not contiguous with each other, wherein the selection of multiple reference marks is made with the input device; and in response to receiving the selection of multiple reference marks in the particular order, selecting contents of each portion of the document indicated by the selected reference marks for a copy operation of the selected contents, wherein the copy operation simultaneously copies the contents of each indicated portion of the document in the particular order without copying content from the document located in between the indicated portions of the document.