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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. 25, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
James Lee Lentz, Austin, TX (US);
Ricky Lee Poston, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for quickly expanding a compressed list of items on a display system are provided. The method entails displaying the compressed list of items and expanding the displayed compressed list of items by displaying a non-displayed item halfway between two displayed items when a pointer touches the two displayed items. If the pointer only touches one displayed item, a non-displayed item halfway between the displayed item touched and the displayed item immediately above as well as that immediately below the displayed item touched will be displayed. If, on the other hand, the pointer touches three displayed items, a non-displayed item halfway between each pair of the three displayed items touched will be displayed.