Patent №
US 5,801,699
Granted
1998-09-01
Filed 1996
Owner
IBM CORPORATION
Lab
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 classification
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.