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David E McCauley, Iii

Darren B Remington

Robert F Day

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

John M Tippett

Scott R Ludwig

Brian T Fleming

Edward K Y Jung

Mark A Malamud

John E Elsbree

David A Barnes

Joyce A Grauman

Erik A Gavriluk

Christopher S Heidorn

Steve Madigan

An event architecture facilitates the asynchronous invocation of events at an event sink. The events are triggered by direct invocation of methods on the event sink. A backchannel connection may be utilized to pass control information from an event sink to an event source. The use of the backchannel connection creates bidirectional connections between an event source and an event sink. A guardian object may be situated between the event source and the event sink to facilitate the asynchronicity of event delivery and to account for disparate threading models between the event source and the event sink. A third party connector may be utilized to connect the event source with the event sink.

Method and system for providing an event system infrastructure

An improved storage mechanism is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a container is used for storing objects, links to objects, and other containers. The container of the preferred embodiment is programmable so that the methods of the container are replaceable and the functionality of the container is extendible through the use of a command unit.

Method and system for replacement and extension of container interfaces

System and method having programmable containers with functionality for

File rack icons are provided to logically group object icons on the screen of a video display. The file rack icon consolidates the grouped icons so that they occupy less of the screen of the video display. The file rack icon is available in alternative forms. In addition, object icons may be dragged into or dragged out of a file rack icon so as to dynamically alter the icons grouped by the file rack icon.

Folder rack icons

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David E McCauley, Iii