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Presentation manager

US5416900A · kind A · utility

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20Claims
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Filing dateMar 23, 1993
Grant dateMay 16, 1995
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Expiry dateMar 23, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T11/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A presentation manager including a module for representing a graphical object on a page, the graphical object having a size and a placement on said page; a module for representing a container object that is associated with the page, the container object having a set of specified characteristics; a module for dragging the graphical object to another location on the page; and a module for linking the graphical object to the container object when the graphical object is dragged into the container object, wherein the linking module creates an active link to the container object when the graphical object is dragged into the container object, wherein the active link imposes the set of specified characteristics on the graphical object.

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