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 1):
A method for assisting a user of an electronic device in viewing information on said electronic device,\n said electronic device having at least a processor, a memory storage, said memory storage can be integrated with said processor, a variable increment scrolling input device, a display, said display having an at least a window displaying a portion of at least a document, and means for detecting a location of said display selected through a pointing user action, the method comprising the method steps of: detecting a first scrolling user action; and creating a computer memory description of a reference area of said document, said reference document area being a document area displayed at generally an initial display location, said initial display location being a location of said display selected through a pointing user action at a moment when the first scrolling user action is detected; and scrolling said display window from a first portion of said document to a second portion of said document, wherein generally continuously providing a first visual cue for highlighting said reference document area.

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): 0.3036792994099258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4702888303725884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.320340252506192
- Mean Citation Score: 206.23691
- Max Citation Score: 210.17036
- Similarity Product: 169.45861672990318

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

Dataset: test