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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:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Lee Lentz, Austin, TX (US);
Ricky Lee Poston, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for expanding a compressed list of displayed items are provided. Each item in the list is made up of a plurality of rows of pixels. When the list is fully compressed, each item is displayed by displaying only one row of pixels. The method entails using a pointer to touch the first character of an item. When that occurs, the item is expanded by displaying every other row of pixels. If the pointer touches more than one character of the item then the item will be fully expanded by having all of its rows of pixels displayed.