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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Valerie Monk Bennett, Macon, NC (US);
Joseph Robert Cyrus, Jr., Cary, NC (US);
Mohit Jain, Durham, NC (US);
Ethan Kary Merrill, Durham, NC (US);
Valerie Monk Bennett, Macon, NC (US);
Joseph Robert Cyrus, Jr., Cary, NC (US);
Mohit Jain, Durham, NC (US);
Ethan Kary Merrill, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Computer hardware logic displays a computer-generated geographic map on a video display through the use of a receiving logic and a zooming logic. The receiving ic detects an input signal for initiating a map zoning mode for an initial computer-generated geographic map. This map zoning mode prevents zooming of the entire initial computer-generated geographic map. The zooming logic zooms a user-selected area on the initial computer-generated geographic map, thus generating a zoom window that displays and overlays an enlarged view of the user-selected area over the initial computer-generated geographic map.