Patent ID: 7552400

Claim:
A system for navigating within a graphical user interface without using a pointing device, comprising: a set of one or more keyboard shortcuts comprising at least one key, each keyboard shortcut specifying an action to perform within a graphical user interface which is executed upon input of each key in the keyboard shortcut and at least one key corresponding to a semantically-meaningful hyperlink within Web content, wherein at least one of the one or more keyboard shortcuts causes scrolling of the Web content to occur and fetching of additional web content when scrolling reaches a predetermined location in the Web content, and further wherein the Web content comprises at least one intervening hyperlink, and the at least one key corresponding to the semantically-meaningful hyperlink providing navigation to skip selection of the at least one intervening hyperlink; and a Web browser providing navigation within the graphical user interface, comprising: an output component providing the Web content on a view within the graphical user interface and including a graphical pointer indicating a location within the view; and an input component intercepting at least one key input by a user and mapping the intercepted key to one keyboard shortcut, and executing the action specified by the keyboard shortcut and updating the view within the Web content relative to the graphical pointer.