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5920314 Process and tool for conceptual modeling of expertise on a computer system  
A process for conceptually modeling expertise on a computer system with a central processing unit, a central memory and a display working in multi-windows graphics mode. Each window is equipped...
5917492 Method and system for displaying an expandable tree structure in a data processing system graphical user interface  
A method and system are disclosed for displaying a graphical representation on a display screen of a data processing system in a manner that optimizes screen "real estate" and ease of information...
5898436 Graphical user interface for digital image editing  
Chromatic adjustments to the overall color balance of the image are presented on one screen and tonal adjustments (such as brightness or contrast) that do not affect the overall color balance are...
5877760 User interface for synchronously and independently scrolling windows  
The user interface system provides a mouse for inputting a time segment by pointing to an arbitrary position of the display screen. Displayed in a window, the time segment has a position and length...
5870091 Combining palettes on a computer display  
A computer-implemented graphical user interface method receives a select command to select a first window from a group of three or more separate and distinct windows. A dock command is received to...
5841437 Method and apparatus for interactive database queries via movable viewing operation regions  
An information visualization system which uses dynamic queries in combination with movable viewing operation regions (VORs) for searching of two dimensional databases. Boolean and real-valued...
5841434 System and method for multi-platform implementation of objects on windowing computer systems  
A separate window is provided for each of multiple OpenDoc Canvas objects, thereby effecting a multiple Canvas-per-compound document design. Possibility of one OpenDoc object drawing in another...
5838906 Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document  
A system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object. The program object is embedded into...
5831609 Method and system for dynamic translation between different graphical user interface systems  
The present invention is directed towards a translation software that provides remote access to an application program that is executing on a host machine in its native operating system...
5825358 Process and system for forming multiple preemptive modeless dialog boxes  
A process and system for (a) minimizing operator interaction for selecting various functions of an application using a main window thread, an intelligent worker thread and a preemptive modeless...
5821931 Attachment and control of software notes  
The present invention implements, in a data processing environment, many of the attributes of paper Post-it® notes. The note program of the present invention need not be resident in an application...
5815154 Graphical browser system for displaying and manipulating a computer model  
A graphical browser displays and manipulates a computer model by accessing data indicative of features and geometric characteristics of the model, presents graphical data indicative of features of...
5815149 Method for generating code for modifying existing event routines for controls on a form  
The disclosed invention is a method for generating code in a maintainable form and in performing needed maintenance for the same. This method is useful in a computing system having at least one...
5808611 Positioning for multiple icons in an object-oriented interface  
A method, system and program for creating child graphical objects in an object oriented graphical user interface. First, the child object is created by copying a set of attributes from a parent...
5808610 Method and system of docking panels  
A computer program displaying a plurality of panels on the display of a computer system. Each panel contains one or more sets of tools, commands, and information displays that can be used to modify...
5806077 Hypertext display system  
A hypertext display system is described in which displayed hypertext links contain a marker indicating whether or not the unit of information to which the link leads has previously been visited by...
5796393 System for intergrating an on-line service community with a foreign service  
A system and method are disclosed for integrating an on-line service community with a foreign service such as the Internet World Wide Web. To take advantage of the present invention, on-line...
5796397 Information processing device with input data sharing among several applications  
An information processing device is described which is capable of easily changing a current application to new one during inputting data for said application through a composite input screen and of...
5786814 Computer controlled display system activities using correlated graphical and timeline interfaces for controlling replay of temporal data representing collaborative activities  
A system for controlling the playback of a recorded session. Timestream and event information for the session is captured by one or more recording devices. Playback of a session is performed under...
5784057 Dynamically modifying a graphical user interface window title  
An application, method and apparatus for revision of a title of a window containing objects as controlled by a computer system. The computer system has at least a visual operator interface, an...
5781192 Data transfer system  
A computer implemented method for storing data from an instance of an application program into at least one of a plurality of buffers includes the steps of bringing an application program into...
5771042 Multi-size control for multiple adjacent workspaces  
Methods, data processing systems or program products which provide a user interfaces capable of controlling the size of multiple workspaces with limited user input. The size of workspaces is...
5767849 Personality neutral window management subsystem  
A window management system resident in a computer operating system provides a generic windowing interface for application programs written to operate with various specific graphical user...
5767853 Computer operating method and computer operated thereby  
A computer having an estimating capability estimates, where one data file is shared by a plurality of application programs, application programs to be executed when a given data file is designated,...
5764230 Window manager suitable for multiple window workstations  
A window manager for a windowing system includes a window server to command the display on screen of first windows reserved by client programs of the system. The window manager manages the...
5764873 Lazy drag of graphical user interface (GUI) objects  
A computer system employs a graphical user interface and pointing device to allow a user to drag icons, representing data or objects, without holding the mouse button, or other key, actively...
5760771 System and method for providing structured tours of hypertext files  
A system and method for providing structured tours of hypertext files. A server controls the presentation of hypertext files to a user. Accompanying information to the hypertext files in the form...
5760770 System and method for defining a view to display data  
Views and view controls are used to display and access data created from multiple applications. Namespaces, folders, items, views and view control objects are used to abstract the data type of the...
5757369 Display system having plurality of display areas  
A display system includes a plurality of display areas on which images are displayed, and a processing unit for controlling display formation of images on the plurality of display areas so that the...
5757373 Information processing apparatus with display for a variable number of functional items  
An image transmission system includes an image transmitting unit having a display to display a status of a receiving unit and a detector for detecting a size of an original and a record mode...
5758111 Data processing apparatus for executing data processing using windows displayed on a display apparatus  
A data processing apparatus connected to at least one input apparatus and a display apparatus and including a window control unit and a data processing unit for executing data processing using one...
5751979 Video hardware for protected, multiprocessing systems  
A video controller that enables applications operating in a protected, multiprocessing system to update a video memory at native speeds. In this system and method, each application is assigned a...
5752055 Systems and method for automatically linking parts within compound documents  
In a computer environment which provides support for compound documents composed of multiple parts, a technique is provided for linking parts which rely on common data so that updating the common...
5745112 Device and method for a window responding to a drag operation  
A method and system that improve direct manipulation operations in a multiwindow environment. Whenever the system detects the start of a drag operation, attribute information on the dragged object...
5745111 Method and system for automatic presentation of default-drop target icons at window borders  
A method and system for automatically presenting default-drop target icons displayed within a data processing system. Default-drop target icons are representative of data processing system events,...
5742284 Object based system comprising weak links  
A distributed object based system (10) comprising primary (P) and secondary (S) objects with provision for containership links between primary objects and objects which they contain and for weak...
5742286 Graphical user interface system and method for multiple simultaneous targets  
Source and target objects are differentiated by an attribute visible to the user and detectable by an application with source objects and target objects residing in respective containers. When a...
5742778 Method and apparatus to sense and multicast window events to a plurality of existing applications for concurrent execution  
A multicasting system for multicasting window events to various application programs running on a computer system, each such program having an application window. A global control program runs on...
5740389 Scrolling a target window during a drag and drop operation  
A technique for transferring a graphical object in a graphical user interface on a computer display from a source window to a target window. It is determined that a graphical object from the source...
5734380 Method for controlling the presentation of displays in a multi-window computer environment  
In a display system having a display surface of one or more physical surfaces, a method controls the presentation of application displays in a multi-window computer environment wherein multiple...
5734899 Device for managing data in a version  
A version control device comprises an entire-generic information storage object for storing version control information common to data under the application of a version control, version-generic...
5729704 User-directed method for operating on an object-based model data structure through a second contextual image  
A user-directed method for operating a processor-controlled machine permits a user to operate on an object-based model data structure from which a first image has been produced in order to produce...
5724532 Method and apparatus for exchanging information between application programs according to a drag and drop operation  
A method of communicating information in a computer system. First generate a send set. The send set includes a first type indicator. The first type indicator corresponds to a send object. Next,...
RE35738 Data entry and error embedding system  
A data entry and error embedding system in which, first, a document is bitmapped and recorded in a first memory. Then, it is displayed, and portions of it to be replicated by data entry are...
5721851 Transient link indicators in image maps  
A uniquely programmed computer system, computer-implemented method, and computer readable memory embodying computer-readable detailed logic (i.e., computer readable program code) direct a computer...
5714971 Split bar and input/output window control icons for interactive user interface  
An interactive user interface for a computer controlled system to simplify browsing and navigating through information structures. The interface uses a split-pane icon on a window scroll bar, or...
5713020 Method and system for generating database queries containing multiple levels of aggregation  
A method and system for displaying results of multiple level aggregation queries and providing hierarchical table sets in response to multiple level aggregation queries. In a preferred embodiment,...
5706455 Distributed database configuration with graphical representations having prelinked parameters for devices within a networked control system  
A networked control system includes graphical representations of actual devices coupled to a network. The graphical representations include symbols that provide an actual picture of the devices and...
5696915 Method and apparatus for linking routines for different contexts  
A method and apparatus for associating routines for controlling user actions in a computer-controlled display system. Each of a first of plurality of routines may be linked for controlling the...
5694544 Conference support system which associates a shared object with data relating to said shared object  
A conference support system includes a plurality of computers provided with a graphical user interface (GUI) system and connected by a communication network. Each computer includes a storage...
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