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US Patent 5867161 - Uniform mnemonic associations of computer resources to graphical images

US Patent Issued on February 2, 1999
Estimated Patent Expiration Date: Icon_subject August 8, 2015Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
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Abstract

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 one or more of a plurality of image sets as selected by the user, and is responsive to user resource information display input to enable the display of resource identification information from a resource list that is associated with a displayed image. In response to user resource selection input selecting a resource identified in the displayed resource identification information, the graphical user interface arrangement provides access to the associated resource.

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Inventor

Application

No. 512431 filed on 08/08/1995

US Classes:

715/808, Pop-up control715/810, Menu or selectable iconic array (e.g., palette)715/975POP-UP DIALOG BOX FOR ENTRY

Examiners

Primary: Bayerl, Raymond J.

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International Class

G06F 003/14

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