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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:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen Charles North, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Gordon Charles McNeal Woodhull, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a convenient framework for container applications and controls. A customizable embeddable container is provided, and client objects of the container may be positioned dynamically by an external layout agent. The container manages toolbars and user interface modes, integrating disparate components into a single consistent interface. Group repositories of related objects for data transfer operations such as cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop, save-and-load, can be supported. The present invention advantageously does not rely on large external libraries and, thus, is relatively lightweight.