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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1993
William B Blanchard, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jonathan P Booth, Portsmouth, NH (US);
Jennifer Memhard, Natick, MA (US);
Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A presentation manager including a module for representing a graphical object on a page, the graphical object having a size and a placement on said page; a module for representing a container object that is associated with the page, the container object having a set of specified characteristics; a module for dragging the graphical object to another location on the page; and a module for linking the graphical object to the container object when the graphical object is dragged into the container object, wherein the linking module creates an active link to the container object when the graphical object is dragged into the container object, wherein the active link imposes the set of specified characteristics on the graphical object.