Patent Document ID: 7739622
Application ID: 11553986

Base Claim:
1. A system for providing inter-file navigation comprising: means for selecting a plurality of files; wherein contents of one or more of the plurality of files have different lengths and widths relative to lengths and widths of contents of one or more other files of the plurality of files; means for constructing a scaled graphical representation for each selected file, wherein each scaled graphical representation provides a graphical representation of the entire corresponding file; wherein an amount of scaling used to construct each graphical representation is consistent such that the resulting size of each graphical representation relative to the size of each other graphical representation visually indicates both the relative length and width of contents of each corresponding file; means for displaying an arrangement of the scaled graphical representations of the files within at least one document selection window; means for providing a user interface for user selection of any point within any of the scaled graphical representations of the files displayed in the at least one document selection window; within a user interface (UI) window, means for opening a file corresponding to a selected one of the scaled graphical representations selected via the user interface; and means for automatically scrolling the opened file to a position corresponding to the point selected within the scaled graphical representations of the file.

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Claim 7:
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one document selection window is represented by a set of tabbed user selectable document selection windows, and wherein each tabbed document selection window provides a different set of scaled graphical representations corresponding to different sets of selected files.