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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1996
Peter Lucas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey A Senn, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device is disclosed. The disclosed system supports displaying documents as strands, such that documents in a strand follow a strand path. The strand path is a two dimensional line through a three dimensional display space. The documents displayed on the strand are known as child documents, and each strand also has a parent document. Various constraints defining the strand are associated with the parent document, including a strand function defining the strand path when evaluated, minimum and maximum separation constraints defining the distance between the child documents on the strand, and an origin constraint defining the positional relationship of the strand path to the display of the parent document.