System and method for scrolling information in a UI table

A system for scrolling information in a user interface on a display screen via an input device including a trackball, said system comprising:

• the display screen and pointing device providing directional input along at least two axes;
• a processor and memory coupled thereto, said memory storing instructions and data for configuring the execution of the processor to:
• display information of a plurality of cells within a space of the user interface allocated on the display screen and wherein the information in a subset of the plurality of cells is truncated to fit the space;
• provide a scroll control that, when selected, is operable to scroll the information in the space to display the truncated information of the subset of cells in response to an input plurality of rolls of the trackball when the input number of rolls exceed user providing threshold limited scrolling a predetermined threshold number of inputs rolls performed in a selected direction along an axis of interest;
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• display the truncated information of the subset of cells in the space ticker style automatically in the selected direction alone the axis of interest in response to said user input to scroll the truncated information until all of the information is displayed without further user input;
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• wherein the instructions and data configure the execution of the processor such that the user interface comprises a table having a one or more rows and one or more columns and wherein the scroll control is associated with a plurality of selected rows or a plurality of selected columns to scroll information in the respectiye cells of the selected rows or selected columns.

A computer program product having computer readable, code embodied therein, for execution by a processor for configuring a computer to display information in a user interface on a display screen Via an device including a trackball, the code configuring the execution of the processor to:

• display information of a plurality of cells within a space of the use interface allocated on the display screen and wherein the information in a subset of the plurality of cells is truncated to fit the space;
• provide a column scroll control that, when selected, is operable to scroll the column to display the truncated Information of the subset of cells in response to an input plurality of rolls of the trackball when the input number of rolls exceed user providing threshold limited scrolling input via a pointing device, toe threshold limited scrolling input comprising a predetermined threshold number of input rolls performed in a selected direction along an axis of interest;
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• display the truncated information of the subset of cells in the space ticker style automatically in the selected direction along the axis of interest in response to said user input to scroll the truncated information until all of the information is displayed without further user input;
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• wherein the code configures the execution of the processor such that the user interface comprises a table having a one or more rows and one or more columns and wherein the scroll control is associated with a plurality of selected rows or a plurality of selected columns to scroll information in the respective cells of the selected S or selected columns.