Patent Document ID: 8957920
Application ID: 12823658

Base Claim:
1. A method of presenting, within a scene having a zoom level, at least one visual element representing a first topic that is associated with an associated topic on a device having a processor, the method comprising: executing on the processor instructions configured to: upon receiving a zoom operation at a point within the scene, where the zoom operation transitions the scene to a new zoom level, transition the scene to the new zoom level; and present the scene by, for respective visual elements: at a first zoom level for the point within the scene, presenting the visual element at the first zoom level; at a second zoom level for the point within the scene that is higher than the first zoom level, presenting the visual element at the second zoom level and a second visual element indicating the associated topic; and at a third zoom level for the point within the scene that is higher than the second zoom level, presenting the second visual element indicating the associated topic and removing from the scene the visual element indicating the first topic.

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Claim 13:
13. The method of claim 1 , transitioning to the new zoom level comprising: rendering a visual zoom within the scene from the zoom level to the new zoom level.