Patent ID: 7836408

Claim:
A method comprising: calculating the number of times a key word or phrase appears in a file, the file having a plurality of locations and comprising at least one of the key word or phrase; for each of the locations of the file: calculating the number of times the key word or phrase appears in the location; and dividing the number of times the key word or phrase appears in the location by the number of times the key word or phrase appears in the file to arrive at a relative importance value for the location; and displaying a vertical scroll bar having a scroll thumb, the scroll bar having a plurality of segments each of which is visually distinctive and associated with one of the plurality of locations having one of the relative importance values, each segment being about the width of the scroll bar and indicating to a user a relative importance of the associated location of the file with respect to other locations in the file based on the relative importance value of the associated location of the file, by scanning only in a vertical direction, wherein in order to navigate directly to a particular file location having one of the relative importance values, a user views only the plurality of segments in the scroll bar, identifies a visually distinctive segment corresponding to the specific relative importance value, and moves the scroll thumb only in a vertical direction directly to the visually distinctive segment.