Patent ID: 7330176

Claim:
A method for displaying a computer-based set of information on a display screen, comprising: displaying on said display screen a complex flipping image and a stationary page image, at least one of the complex flipping image and the stationary page image including a portion of the set of information, wherein said complex flipping image comprises at least one of a reverse-direction-of-a-single-last-trailing-page display, a reverse-direction-of-multiple-last-trailing-pages display, a reverse-direction-of-a-selected-group-of-flipping-pages display, an unfreeze-frozen-pages-and-let-pages-all-flip-in-a-same-direction display, an unfreeze-frozen-pages-and-let-subgroups-of-pages-flip-in-different-directions display, a launch-flipping-pages-while-a-thick-collection-of-pages-is-flipping display, a launch-at-least-one-other-thick-collections-of-pages-while-other-pages-are-flipping display, a move-at-least-one-of-a-held-pages-and-a-thick-collection-of-pages-in-a-selected-direction-and-at-a-selected-speed display, a-hold-a-single-page-in-mid-flip-and-collect-other-pages-that-flip-onto-the-single-page-in-mid-flip display, a hold-a-single-thick-collection-of-pages-in-mid-flip-and-collect-other-pages-that-flip-onto-the-single-thick-collection-of-pages-in-mid-flip-display, a-hold-at-least-one-of-a-single-page-and-a-thick-collection-of-pages-in-mid-flip-and-execute-at-least-one-of-the-set-of-page-flipping-commands-between-the-at-least-one-of-a-single-page-and-a-thick-collection-of-pages-in-mid-flip-and-a-thickness-of-a-side-of-a-book display, a-hold-at-least-one-of-two-pages-and-two-thick-collections-or-pages-in-mid-flip-and-displays-at-least-one-of-the-set-of-page-flipping-displays-between-the-at-least-one-of-two-pages-and-two-thick-collections-of-pages-in-mid-flip display, a select-to-hold-at-least-one-of-at-least-two-pages-and-at-least-two-thick-collections-of-pages display, a hold-a-single-thick-collection-of-pages-in-mid-flip-while-releasing-one-or-more-pages-from-the-collection display, and a select-a-desired-split-point-on-a-held-single-thick-collection-of-pages-in-mid-flip and-split-the-collection-of-pages-into-two-separate-collections-of-pages display.