Scrolling techniques for user interfaces
Systems and methods for improving the scrolling of user interfaces of electronic devices are provided. For example, a user interface may provide various visual, aural, and tactile enhancements for increasing the ease and
Patent Number
US 8683378
Status
Active
Filing Date
January 9, 2008
Grant Date
March 25, 2014
Expiration
~January 2028 (estimated)
Claims
34
Assignee
Apple Inc
Inventors
William Bull, Kourtny Minh HICKS, Policarpo Wood, Eric James Hope
Citations
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What it covers
Systems and methods for improving the scrolling of user interfaces of electronic devices are provided. For example, a user interface may provide various visual, aural, and tactile enhancements for increasing the ease and speed with which a user may scroll through a list of listings to highlight a particular listing. Each listing may be associated with a particular entry in a media library. Moreover, each listing may be associated with one of multiple sublists in the list of listings, and each sublist may be defined based on a characteristic of a first piece of metadata associated with each entry in the media library. The various visual, aural, and tactile enhancements may be provided based on a relationship between a previously highlighted listing and a currently highlighted listing.
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