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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:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Kleewein, Kirkland, WA (US);
William T Flora, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345352 ; 345339 ; 345473 ;
Abstract
A method and system are provided for displaying animations of menus solely in response to a cursor pointing in proximity to a menu marker that is displayed on a video display. Multiple menu markers may be displayed on the video display and each menu marker may be associated with a different menu. The animation may produce the visual effect of the menu sliding out of an associated menu marker. A dynamic control mechanism may be used to control the performance of the animation of the menu to account for different platforms and different processing states. In addition, audio output may accompany the animation of the menu.