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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. 28, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shin-ichi Hirose, Tokyo-to, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machine Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345349 ; 345343 ;
Abstract
A method and system that improve direct manipulation operations in a multiwindow environment. Whenever the system detects the start of a drag operation, attribute information on the dragged object is sent to the windows displayed in the system. Each window determines from the attribute information whether or not it can respond to the drag operation. The display is disabled for any window that determines it cannot respond to he drag operation.