Patent ID: 7519906

Claim:
A computer implemented method, comprising: determining one or more constraints of a display area; determining visual saliency of a plurality of page icons, the plurality of page icons representing pages of a document, based on at least one visual feature within the page icons, including determining a measure of the visual saliency of the plurality of page icons by at least a visual significance of said at least one visual feature and the presence of at least one predetermined visual feature that is based on a visual distinctiveness of the at least one predetermined visual feature in relation to a plurality of visual features; determining, based on the one or more constraints of the display area and the one or more visual features within the page icons, whether one or more of the plurality of page icons are to be displayed in full and whether portions of one or more page icons are to be displayed partially obstructed by another page icon; and displaying all of the plurality of page icons within the display area, the displayed plurality of page icons satisfying the one or more constraints of the display area and based on the visual saliency of the plurality of page icons.