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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Cheryl L. Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen D. Jensen, Monroe, WA (US);
Robert F. Keohane, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard H. Leukart, Seattle, WA (US);
Cheryl L. Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen D. Jensen, Monroe, WA (US);
Robert F. Keohane, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard H. Leukart, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An improved user interface is provided for allowing the application of two properties or pieces of metadata to an object with a single user action. A two-dimensional radial menu (user interface) is provided. The radial menu is a generally pie-shaped user interface that is divided into two or more slices associated with two or more corresponding types of a first property that may be applied to a selected object. The menu is further divided to two or more circular sections so that each slice of the pie-shaped radial menu is further divided into two or more sections. Each circular section is associated with a type of a second property that may be applied to the object. By selection of a given section in a given slice of the radial menu, one type of the first property associated with the given slice and a one type of the second property associated with the given circular section of the slice are applied to the selected object with a single user action.