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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1996
David T. Berquist, St. Paul, MN (US);
Peter M. Eisenberg, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Mitchell B. Grunes, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Martin A. Kenner, Burnsville, MN (US);
John M. Kruse, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Timothy A. Mertens, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Cindy L. Munson, Woodbury, MN (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention implements in a data processing environment, many of the attributes of paper Post-it® notes. The note program of the present invention need not be resident in an application program, and the notes of the present invention may be moved directly between windows or between regions without being saved in an intermediate memory, may be easily dispensed either from a note dispenser of a window or on a desktop, may overlap the boundary of a window, may be automatically saved, may be attached to a document within a window so that the note moves with the document, may overlap a boundary of a window, may be resized with the constraint that the note may not be resized off of a window, may be moved across a window boundary, and may be attached to an object, such as a character, a word, a sentence, or paragraph of a document.