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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:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1995
Susan F Henshaw, Cary, NC (US);
Sarah D Redpath, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for efficiently presenting the contents of a container object within a graphical user interface on a display in a data processing system. The graphical user interface includes an existing display window area. A container object, which may be utilized as a graphical indication of the storage of multiple objects, is selected. An organized format for presenting contents of the specified container object is specified by a user. The contents of the selected container object are then presented in the specified organized format within the existing display window area in the graphical user interface on the display, without allocating an additional display window area.