Synthetic navigation elements for electronic documents
US8539339B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 12, 2011 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 25, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/18
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for managing the display of items in a web-based document application includes providing an electronic document that includes a plurality of content items, anchoring a plurality of base layers to different discrete positions of the electronic document, and anchoring ones of the plurality of content items to particular ones of the base layers so that when the spreadsheet is scrolled on a computer display, the content items move with the spreadsheet by virtue of the anchoring of the content items to the base layers and the anchoring of the base layers to the spreadsheet.
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