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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:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kai Krause, Montecito, CA (US);
Ben Weiss, Carpinteria, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345348 ; 345339 ; 395619 ; 395772 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for saving prior versions of a document so that the user has complete control of which versions of the document are saved, while providing a mechanism for easy retrieval of saved versions. The invention utilizes a set of icons on a screen display which when selected by a pointer device perform an action depending upon the state of the selected icon which may be one of three states.