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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1997
Didier Daniel Bardon, Austin, TX (US);
Richard Edmond Berry, Georgetown, TX (US);
Shirley Lynn Martin, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Anthony Morgan, Austin, TX (US);
John Martin Mullaly, Austin, TX (US);
Craig Ardner Swearingen, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer supported display control system for switching between and tracking of sequences in electronic media presentations having multisequences. During switching, the selected tracks or sequences may be accessed directly and the tracking is persistent and continual through a graphic scale of positions adjacent to and respectively corresponding to each sequence in a list of such sequences. The position of the current sequence is tracked by an indicator which is on the scale.