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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1998
Mary Czerwinski, Woodinville, WA (US);
Susan T. Dumais, Kirkland, WA (US);
Susan E. Dziadosz, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
George G. Robertson, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel C. Robbins, Seattle, WA (US);
Maarten Roderik van Dantzich, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A graphical user interface in which object thumbnails are rendered on a simulated three-dimensional surface which (i) exploits spatial memory and (ii) allows more objects to be rendered on a given screen. The objects may be moved, continuously, on the surface with a two-dimensional input device. Furthermore, the interface determines a degree to which each such object is related, either through similarity or matching, to other such objects and displays an appropriate cue proximate to and associated with the former object to visually signify this degree.