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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1996
Paul W Bennett, Roundrock, TX (US);
Sheila A Harnett, Austin, TX (US);
Deepa S Desai, Austin, TX (US);
Salil J Kulkarni, Austin, TX (US);
Ann M Robinson, Roundrock, TX (US);
Duane S Wood, Jacksonville, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In transferring a user application from an original user environment to a new user environment by dragging and dropping a graphical image representative of the user application, a new object or 'shadow part' is automatically created in the new user environment with the same attributes as the user application in the original user environment. The new object also inherits the characteristics of other objects in the new user environment. The new object may optionally be linked to the original user application so that setting changes in one user environment are reflected in the other.