Patent ID: 7810042

Claim:
A system comprising: a display device configured to display at least a portion of a current page of a document that includes multiple pages; and a processor configured to render a page bar control element that provides a visual representation of a plurality of pages of the document, wherein the visual representation includes a plurality of markers, each marker representing one or more pages of the document, wherein a background of a marker corresponding to the current page corresponds to a background of the current page on the display device, wherein backgrounds of markers not corresponding to the current page differ from the background of the current page and backgrounds of each of the markers not corresponding to the current page are the same, wherein upon receipt of a preview request on the page bar control element, at least a portion of a non-current page can be instantly previewed on the display device at the same time the current page is displayed without receiving user selection of the non-current page, and wherein if the system does not detect selection of the non-current page prior to termination of the preview request, the preview of the non-current page is removed from the display, and wherein a marker associated with the non-current page that was previewed is automatically changed to a background that is the same as at least one other marker corresponding to another non-current page that has been previewed.