US Patent 9086756 Snapping to text columns while scrolling

Patent 9086756 was granted and assigned to Opera (web browser) on July, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Overview Structured Data Issues Contributors Activity

Is a

Patent

Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Opera (web browser)

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

9086756

Date of Patent

July 21, 2015

Patent Application Number

12621244

Date Filed

November 18, 2009

Patent Citations Received

‌

US Patent 11836340 Systems and methods for presenting scrolling online content on mobile devices

Patent Primary Examiner

‌

Jordany Nunez

Patent abstract

A method and apparatus for scrolling a electronic document including text, which is displayed on a display screen, including processing user input received via an input device of the computer, detecting an initiating event and pointer movement for a drag operation from the processed user input, scrolling textual content in the document according to the pointer movement of the drag operation, and automatically re-scrolling the textual content to offset a horizontal component of the scrolling of the textual content according to the drag operation.