US 11,941,241 B2
Navigating galleries of digital content
Ramesh Balakrishnan, San Francisco, CA (US); Yi Wei, San Francisco, CA (US); Joshua Puckett, Mountain View, CA (US); Brian Smith, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew Scheff, San Francisco, CA (US); and Rajeev Nayak, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/362,451.
Application 17/362,451 is a continuation of application No. 16/119,858, filed on Aug. 31, 2018, granted, now 11,042,283.
Application 16/119,858 is a continuation of application No. 14/248,238, filed on Apr. 8, 2014, granted, now 10,095,398, issued on Oct. 9, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/945,819, filed on Feb. 27, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0326033 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/04855 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/54 (2019.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 3/04855 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/54 (2019.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
providing, for display on a client device, a graphical user interface comprising a view area for displaying a collection of digital content items;
arranging the collection of digital content items in a timeline organization within the view area based on metadata associated with each content item within the collection of digital content items;
providing, within the graphical user interface, a scroll element to allow a user to scroll through the collection of digital content items within the view area, the scroll element comprising date indicators that correspond to timeframes within the timeline organization of the collection of digital content items;
based on receiving, via the graphical user interface, an indication of a user interaction with the scroll element, expanding the scroll element to an expanded state; and
adding a present position indicator within the scroll element in the expanded state so that the scroll element in the expanded state comprises the present position indicator and the date indicators, the present position indicator corresponding to a set of digital content items currently in the view area.