Apple Inc.

Jeffrey W Kreegar

Kurt W Piersol

Mark Ludwig Stern

David W Curbow

David Canfield Smith

Jennifer Chaffee

Daniel Jordan

George Corrick

Michael Thompson

A document-centered user interface architecture for a computer system employs parts as the fundamental building blocks of all documents. All data is stored in the system as a part, which is comprised of contents and an associated editor. The contents and the functionality of the editor are available to the user wherever the part is located, whether in a document, on a desktop or in a folder. Parts function as containers for other parts, thereby facilitating the compilation and editing of multimedia or compound documents.

Computer-human interface system which manipulates parts between a

Computer-human interface system for compound documents

A computer controlled graphics display system that treats graphical objects in a uniform fashion for consistent, non-modal and direct manipulation of graphics objects. The user, by operating in a visual 'point and click' fashion, may select a graphical object or shape and manipulate it in a number of ways without having to activate different modes for different manipulations. Possible manipulations include dragging, scaling, rotating and skewing. More than one shape can be selected and manipulated by compositing intersected shapes with a selection rectangle. The graphic manipulations are platform independent and thus are all carried out by directing the point and click tool.

Non-modal method and apparatus for manipulating graphical objects

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Brisbane, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey W Kreegar