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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1999
Russell I. Okamoto, Beaverton, OR (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method and system for creating hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information in a hypermedia processing system, or the like, in a fashion that requires little effort on the part of the user. A user can effortlessly create hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents in one seamless motion by simply pressing a predetermined key while dragging and dropping source-visual elements such as a text element onto target visual elements such as another text element. The method and system is defined herein as a “drag and link” operation, enabling the user to create hyperlinks and hyperlinked documents from the direct manipulation of information with the familiar ease of the conventional drag and drop operation.