International Business Machines Corporation

Kim-Khanh Vu Tran

Johnny Meng-Han Shieh

Jessica Kelley Murillo

Patrick Justin Laffey

Scott Trieu Tran

Vi Trieu Tran

Gerald Francis McBrearty

Hypatia Rojas

Paul Bernell Finley, Jr

Daniel Nhiem Nguyen

Daniel F De Araujo

Michael William Panico

Sandra Ann Bowers

A data processing system invokes presentation of a presentation element of a distributed presentation by a plurality of devices. The data processing system receives progress reports from the plurality of devices, where the progress reports indicate progress in presenting the presentation element. The data processing system determines whether a quorum threshold of presentation progress has been achieved based upon the progress reports. In response to determining that the quorum threshold of presentation of presentation progress has been achieved, the data processing system presents an indication that a spoken presentation associated with the presentation element can commence. The notification is presented prior to completion of presentation of the presentation element by at least one of the plurality of devices.

Management of presentation timing in a distributed presentation environment

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a communications device transferring data. A signal strength is received for a communications link used to transfer data to a destination. In response to the signal strength less than a threshold, the data is cached in the communications device to form cached data. In response to a loss and reestablishment of the communications link, the cached data is sent to the destination.

Method and apparatus to transfer data and detect weak signals

In an interactive display interface, an implementation for highlighting all icons in any set of a plurality of the icons, wherein each icon in the set is within a predetermined distance of an approaching pointer or cursor. In other words, the point of the pointer or cursor may be considered to be surrounded by a circular halo with a radius of said predetermined distance. The user moves the cursor in a standard manner. However, if the icons that the moving cursor is approaching are so densely spaced that more than one icon comes within the halo, then all of the icons within this set of the plurality of icons is highlighted to give the user a more distinct choice. The highlighting of each of the highlighted icons is ended when the pointer moves outside of the predetermined distance or halo radius.

Directing users' attention to specific icons being approached by an on-screen pointer on user interactive display interfaces

In an interactive display interface, an implementation switching to an alternate smaller sized cursor when the original sized cursor does not have the minimum clearance between the target icon and other adjacent icons to permit a clear user selection of the target icon. A predetermined minimum clearance factor is set. As the cursor moves toward the target icon, there is a determination made as to whether the arrangement of the target icon with respect to its adjacent icons exceeds the minimum clearance factor. If not, there is an implementation for reducing the size of the cursor so that the minimum clearance factor is exceeded.

Alternate reduced size on-screen pointers for accessing selectable icons in high icon density regions of user interactive display interfaces

Temporarily moving adjacent or overlapping icons away from specific icons being approached by an on-screen pointer on user interactive display interfaces

A graphical user interface is implemented with unique icons for registered but not mounted file systems, registered and mounted file systems, and mounted but not registered file systems. The unique icon for the registered but not mounted file systems permits management of such file systems by users within the network.

Management graphical user interface for a network file system

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