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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
May. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hugh Duggan, Bristol, GB;
William Morel, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345335 ; 345329 ; 345346 ; 345349 ; 39520002 ; 39520003 ; 39520008 ; 39520009 ; 39520014 ; 39520015 ; 395710 ;
Abstract
A distributed object based system (10) comprising primary (P) and secondary (S) objects with provision for containership links between primary objects and objects which they contain and for weak links between objects. A weak link enables a user indirectly to insert an object (or other item, e.g., text) into a target object via an intermediate object weakly linked to the target object.