Positional scrolling (US Patent 7714840)

Patent number: 7714840 Kind code: B2 Granted: 2010-05-11 Filed: 2005-10-14 Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley (Seattle, WA, US); Steven N. Bathiche (Redmond, WA, US) Assignees: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA, US)

Abstract

A method and system for electronically scrolling a document with a data processing apparatus uses an input device, e.g., a mouse, to permit position based scrolling without first accessing a scroll bar or other scrolling functionality element. In a page positional scrolling (PPS) mode useful for scrolling short distances, a