Indexing and topography of software notes
US6151021A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 9, 1997 |
| Grant date | Nov 21, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 9, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/169
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention implements, in a data processing environment, many of the attributes of paper Post-it.RTM. notes. The note program of the present invention need not be resident in an application program, and the notes of the present invention may be moved directly between windows or between regions without being saved in an intermediate memory, may be easily dispensed either from a note dispenser of a window or on a desktop, may overlap the boundary of a window, may be automatically saved, may be attached to a document within a window so that the note moves with the document, may overlap a boundary of a window, may be resized with the constraint that the note may not be resized off of a window, may be moved across a window boundary, and may be attached to an object, such as a character, a word, a sentence, or paragraph of a document.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.