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 15):
An apparatus, comprising at least\n a processor; and a memory storage, which can be integrated with said processor; and a variable increment scrolling input device, such as a scroll wheel or a touch-sensing device; and a display, which can be integrated with said input device, for instance, in the form of a touch-sensitive display, said display including at least a window displaying a portion of at least a document; and software for detecting a first scrolling user action, said scrolling user action detection software stored in said memory storage; and software for detecting a screen area of said display selected through a pointing user action; and software for detecting an initial display location, said initial display location being an area of said display selected through a pointing user action at a moment when the first scrolling user action is detected; and software for defining a reference document area as an area of said document displayed at generally said initial display location at the moment when the first scrolling user action is detected, said reference document area defining software stored in said memory storage; and software for enabling the scrolling of said display from a first portion of said document to a second portion of said document, wherein generally continuously providing a first visual cue for highlighting the reference document area, said scrolling enabling software stored in said memory storage, and software for disabling said third visual cue after a first predetermined amount of time, said visual cue disabling software stored in said memory storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 715.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10067673', '11945226', '14149727', '12567717', '13408565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3041050363346606
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4682543797977492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3205199706809695
- Mean Citation Score: 206.23691
- Max Citation Score: 210.17036
- Similarity Product: 172.87438917160034

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