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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1996

Filed:

Jan. 17, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:

John D Gerlach, Jr, Falls Church, VA (US);

Assignee:

Escom AG, Heppenheim, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395118 ; 395348 ; 395521 ;
Abstract

A data processing system has a central processing unit, a memory for storing a plurality of data structures corresponding to a presentantion, and a display device. The display device has a display screen including a presentation area for displaying a presentation. Each one of the data structures includes an action identifier and a plurality of attributes. The process provides for receiving a one of the plurality of data structures of the presentation, analyzing the received data structure to determine an action to be performed in response to the action identifier of the data structure, and performing the action corresponding to the action identifier in accordance with a plurality of the attributes of the received data structure.


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