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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7234118 | Method and apparatus for setting parameters in a system A method and apparatus for compensating for deficiencies existing in programs to assist a user through installing a program. Polling the status of jobs requested by the user of a workstation is done so that the user may eventually be provided with status reports reg... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7207008 | Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for interactive notification of events A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for the interactive notification of events is provided. A notification client application program executes in a background state and receives notifications from a business application server computer that an ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 6907573 | Intelligent constraint definitions for assembly part mating One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for defining mating properties of a graphical component in a computer-implemented drawing program. An option to create a first constraint interface for a first geometric... | 06/14/2005 |
| 5867161 | Uniform mnemonic associations of computer resources to graphical images A graphical user interface arrangement for use in connection with a computer system, the computer system providing a plurality of accessible resources. The graphical user interface arrangement enables the computer system to display graphical images from o... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5821932 | Dynamic dialog box facility for graphical user interface for computer system video display A computer system includes a information type source file, an information value file and a dynamic dialog box processor. The information type source file includes a plurality of text entries in, for example, ASCII text form, which can be easily edited by ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5630080 | Method and system for the direct manipulation of information, including non-default drag and drop operation A user is provided with an easy-to-use approach to directly manipulating text in a word processing environment or the like. Text may be dragged from one location and dropped in another location to move the text to a new location. More generally, the user ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5307501 | Insuring data security and requiring only the minimum necessary input operations In a data processor including an input device for inputting commands and data, a central processing unit for executing processing in accordance with the input command or data from the input device and a display device for displaying the input command or d... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5297250 | Method of generating interfaces for use applications that are displayable on the screen of a data processing system, and apparatus for performing the method The method relates to the generation of interfaces that are structured around a window and can be displayed on the screen of a data processing system working in the graphics mode. The method is characterized in that a survey module is associated with the ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293494 | Personal computer for setting, in a software setup operation normal/reverse display, connection of an external device, and an automatic display off function A personal computer, wherein a setup processing is performed to select a display mode, either a normal-display mode or a reverse-display mode, and also to select one of the external devices such as a printer and an external floppy disk drive. Also, a disp... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5241655 | Menu presentation method and data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus has an input unit for entering operator data and commands, and a display unit for displaying a work area for data processing. The display unit opens a job menu window for displaying types of selectable jobs by icons at a center... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5208907 | Method for generating a display utilizing objects in an object list Input to the system is buffered by the forms manager to determine access to the tile/region and to check entered data. The tile/region will retain various information such as data entered, user, time, changes, etc. To display a form, the forms manager obt... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5148520 | Determining the locations of the contents of bordered areas of a generic form An apparatus and method for incorporating a topological two-dimensional partitioning procedure for dynamically creating, revising, storing, displaying and printing generic forms. The generic form contains a plurality of bordered areas. Each of the bordere... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5121477 | System for interactively creating action bar pull-down windows of a user interface for use at program run time Customized screens are generated in accordance with the invention for interfacing with an application program in an information processing system. During a panel definition phase when a panel designer creates a customized panel, panel actions are selected... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4713656 | Multi-programmed data processing system with facility for inspecting state of background program A data processing system that can execute a plurality of programs concurrently and has a display screen for displaying data associated with any one of the programs. Each program maintains display screen data indicating the current status of the program. T... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4701752 | Mirror inverse function in an interactive graphics system A procedure for generating a mirror image of a graphic object on an interactive computer graphics display is disclosed. In the specific example described, a cursor locating device such as a mouse and an all points addressable display are assumed. The grap... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4648062 | Method for providing an on line help facility for interactive information handling systems A method to help and displace Help Panels containing information to explain Command Functions, Command Syntax, and Command Parameters to the operator of an interactive information handling system in response to the entry of a "Command Help Request" into s... | 03/03/1987 |
