Patent ID: 8751954
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of scrolling information in a user interface on a display screen via an input device including a trackball, said method comprising: displaying information of a plurality of cells within a space of the user interface allocated on the display screen and wherein the information of a subset of the plurality of cells is truncated to fit the space; providing a scroll control that, when selected, is operable to scroll the information in the space to display the truncated information of the subset of cells in response to an input plurality of rolls of the trackball when the input number of rolls exceed user providing threshold limited scrolling input via a pointing device, the threshold limited scrolling input comprising a predetermined threshold number of inputs rolls performed in a selected direction along an axis of interest; and displaying the truncated information of the subset of cells ticker style automatically in the selected direction along the axis of interest in response to said user input to scroll the truncated information ticker style until all of the information is displayed without further user input; and wherein the user interface comprises a table having a one or more rows and one or more columns and wherein the scroll control is associated with a plurality of selected rows or a plurality of selected columns to scroll information in the respective cells of the selected rows or selected columns.