Patent ID: 7496829

Claim:
In a computer system having a user interface, including a display and a selection device, a method to unify navigational control displaying multiple contexts of electronic documents comprising the steps of: displaying, in the user interface, a first frame, including a first document context navigational association which is the subject of a single navigational focus, the single navigational focus being controllable by a user that is viewing multiple contexts of electronic documents and defined as including a single set of navigational controls in a displayable pinned page object configured to control all contexts within a frame of the display; displaying, in the user interface, a second frame, including a second document context simultaneously with the first document context while maintaining the single navigational focus associated with the first document context; and shifting the navigational focus by user selection to the second frame from the navigational association with the first document context to a navigational association with the second document context, the single set of navigational controls in the user interface configured to control the second document context in the second frame while maintaining control of the second document context within the displayable pinned page object configured to control all contexts, wherein at least one other document context navigational association is accessible by navigation from the first document context navigational association and at least one other document context is accessible by navigation from the second document context navigational association.