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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:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1996
Daniel J O'Leary, Mountain View, CA (US);
David A Nelson-Gal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating third party tools of an integrated software environment with an integrated environment manager. The graphical user interface of the integrated environment manager is augmented with an icon representing a selected third-party tool. Pulldown and pullright menus are controlled to show objects and files which have been used recently and by which tools. The tools and the integrated environment manager communicate through inter-process messaging to coordinate control of picklists in menus of the integrated environment manager and the tools integrated therewith.