Merchandise simulator system and devices

Patent 5880974 Issued on March 9, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 18, 2016. Estimated 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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Inventors

Assignee

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Application

No. 733939 filed on 10/18/1996

US Classes:

703/21Computer or peripheral device

Examiners

Primary: Trans, Vincent N.
Assistant: Mohamed, Ayni

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.

Foreign Patent References

6-348791 JP. 12/23/1994

International Class

G06F 009/455

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-10-20 JP

Abstract

A merchandise simulator device which allows a user to operate a desired piece of merchandise on a user's terminal as if the user was using the piece actually at hand. In the merchandise simulator device, when a workstation executes merchandise simulation software received from an HTTP server, a merchandise simulation control section is activated on the workstation to thereby display the basic image of a selected piece of merchandise in a display section. If a drag operation is carried out by a mouse of an input section, then the piece of merchandise displayed on the display section is rotated on the basis of two or more pieces of image data received from the HTTP server and also, if a mouse input is given to a button or the like of the image data displayed on the display section, then the function of the piece of merchandise displayed in the display section is simulated in whatever display state the present piece is.