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Tunnel icon

US5561758A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Filing dateAug 25, 1994
Grant dateOct 1, 1996
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0486
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A process icon based on a tunnel concept in which the icon has an input and an output portal through which an object is dragged in order to invoke the process. The direction of the process invoked (e.g., encrypt to decrypt or decrypt to encrypt) can be denoted and determined by the portal through which the object is dragged.

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