MULTIPLE DISPLAY POINTERS FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES

Patent №

US 5,586,243

Granted

1996-12-17

Filed 1994

Owner

INTERNATIONAL MACHINES CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08227939

A pointer system provides multiple display pointers that can be created and identified by a computer user such that each pointer is associated with a particular application and location within an application. A user can recall respective pointers and pointer locations by selecting a pointer identifier. One or more of the pointers can be defined as anchored pointers, which are associated with one or more user actions. The user actions can comprise a variety of functions, including mouse button clicks. In this way, a user can define anchored pointers and carry out a string of user actions by selecting the identifying character of an anchored pointer.

Natural languageG06F 3/038G06F 3/0481G06F 3/04812

AI classification

Natural language0.70
AI hardware0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 69670127

Assignors

BARBER, RONALD J., FORD, DANIEL A., SELKER, EDWIN J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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