ICON AGGREGATION ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

Patent №

US 5,801,699

Granted

1998-09-01

Filed 1996

Owner

IBM CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08592250

Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange icons by having the icons bind (stick) to one another and be moved as aggregates. Icons sticky sites may be on icons, windows, or other graphical objects. For example, when an icon with a sticky site is dragged close to another icon with a sticky site, the icons bind together and are subsequently moved as one graphical unit. In some embodiments, a visual indication or binding is given. The icons may be unbound by pointing to an unbinder icon, or using a button sequence on the mouse of keyboard.

AI hardwareG06F 3/04817G06F 3/0486

AI classification

AI hardware0.67
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

IBM CORPORATION

assignment · 79050092

Assignors

HOCKER, MICHAEL C., KELLER, NEAL M., MCLEAN, JAMES G., PICKOVER, CLIFFORD A., WINARSKI, DANIEL J.

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

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