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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
May. 28, 1999
Salvatore Cataudella, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Kathleen Cunningham, New York, NY (US);
Kenneth Herndon, Suffern, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
An object oriented zooming engine provides zooming graphical objects for a zooming graphical user interface. A zooming object residing in a zooming graphical user interface has attributes that are defined by graphical object classes having a particular class hierarchy. Color scheme object classes have a hierarchy that mirrors that of the graphical object classes. This provides an architecture wherein classes of zooming objects can have their own default color schemes, and can inherit the default characteristics of super classes in a predictable fashion. Thus, for example, an instance of an object may inherit the color attributes of other members of its class by default, or may specify an instance color scheme that differs from the default scheme. The architecture provides consistent encapsulation of the color attributes corresponding to graphical objects, and allows color information for the graphical user interface to be stored more efficiently.