PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["715", "708000"]

Abstract:
The invention discloses a method and apparatus for helping the user of computer devices, such as desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, and augmented reality devices, to view information displayed during and after scrolling, when scrolling is performed with variable increment scrolling input devices, such as scroll wheels or touch-sensing devices. According to an embodiment of the invention, the area of the displayed document, which corresponds to either the location of the screen pointer immediately before scrolling or the point of the initial user contact with a touchscreen, is highlighted with visual cues during and shortly after scrolling to support the continuity of user's attention.

Claim (Index 17):
An apparatus of  claim 15  wherein a touch-sensitive display is used for perform scrolling, and said initial display location is a screen location of user's contact with the display at a moment when the first scrolling user action is detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 715.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10067673', '11945226', '14149727', '12567717', '13408565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3267110798081253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4848791979539769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3425278916227105
- Mean Citation Score: 206.23691
- Max Citation Score: 210.17036
- Similarity Product: 148.84774284369706

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test