Granted Patent B2

US 12,427,412 · App. 17/953,141 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Inventors: Karlo Alexis Reyes (Woodinville, WA); Ryan Ashley Medlin (Portland, OR); Efus Richman (Seattle, WA); Ross Anthony Marshall (Duvall, WA); Raymond Charles Dean (Shoreline, WA); Kayla Louise Covington (Atlanta, GA); Brannon James Zahand (Issaquah, WA)

Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

A63F13/53G06F3/04842G06F3/0485A63F2300/308

Abstract

Claims (50)

1. A method of navigating visual content comprising:

establishing an interface template including a viewport;

obtaining visual content data;

identifying at least a first focusable element and a second focusable element in the visual content data;

presenting a first portion of visual content in the viewport on a display device, wherein the visual content is based at least partially on the visual content data and the first portion includes the first focusable element and does not include the second focusable element;

indicating the first focusable element in the viewport with a visual indicator; and

responsive to a user input having a navigation direction, determining whether a second focusable element is present or not present in the viewport wherein the second focusable element is a next focusable element in the direction of the user input, wherein:

when the second focusable element of the visual content is not present in the viewport in a navigation direction of the user input scrolling the visual content in the viewport without moving the visual indicator from the first focusable element, and

when at least a portion of the second focusable element is present in the viewport, moving the visual indicator to the second focusable element.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user input is a uniaxial directional user input.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the display device is a television.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual content data is paginated.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first focusable element and the second focusable element is an interactive element.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising indicating a scroll element while scrolling the visual content.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein indicating a scroll element includes indicating the scroll element with the visual indicator.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual indicator is a border visual indicator.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual indicator is a highlighting visual indicator.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual indicator is a movement visual indicator.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising scaling at least one of the first focusable element and the second focusable element based at least partially on a dimension of the viewport.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, upon beginning scrolling, moving the visual indicator between the first focusable element and a portion of a scroll bar.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying at least a first focusable element and a second focusable element includes parsing the visual content data and identifying an element type of one or more elements of the visual content data.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein moving the visual indicator to the second focusable element includes moving the visual indicator while at least one non-focusable element is present in the viewport.

15. A system for providing visual content to a user, the system comprising:

a computing device, the computing device including:

a communication device configured to receive user inputs,

a processor in data communication with the communication device, and

a hardware storage device in data communication with the processor, wherein the hardware storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to:

establish an interface template including a viewport;

obtain visual content data;

identify at least a first focusable element and a second focusable element in the visual content data;

present a first portion of visual content in the viewport on a display device, wherein the visual content is based at least partially on the visual content data and the first portion includes the first focusable element and does not include the second focusable element;

indicate a first focusable element in the viewport with a visual indicator; and

responsive to a user input having a navigation direction, determine whether a second focusable element is present or not present in the viewport wherein the second focusable element is a next focusable element in the direction of the user input, wherein:

when the second focusable element of the visual content is not present in the viewport in a navigation direction of the user input scrolling the visual content in the viewport without moving the visual indicator from the first focusable element, and

when at least a portion of the second focusable element is present in the viewport, moving the visual indicator to the second focusable element.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the computing device is a video game console.

17. The system of claim 15 , further comprising a user input device wherein the user input device is a video game controller.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the computing device further includes the display device.

19. A method of navigating visual content comprising:

at a computing device:

establishing an interface template including a viewport;

obtaining visual content data;

identifying at least a first focusable element and a second focusable element in the visual content data;

presenting a first portion of visual content in the viewport of a user interface based at least partially on the interface template on a display device, wherein the visual content is based at least partially on the visual content data and the first portion includes the first focusable element and does not include the second focusable element;

indicating a first focusable element in the viewport with a visual indicator;

responsive to a user input having a navigation direction, determine whether a second focusable element is present or not present in the viewport wherein the second focusable element is a next focusable element in the direction of the user input, wherein:

when the second focusable element of the visual content is not present in the viewport in a navigation direction of the user input scrolling the visual content in the viewport without moving the visual indicator from the first focusable element, and

when at least a portion of the second focusable element is present in the viewport, moving the visual indicator to the second focusable element; and

upon beginning scrolling, indicating a scroll element on a scroll bar.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein indicating the scroll element includes using a same visual indicator as the first focusable element.

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