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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:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2011
Applicants:
Michael R. Croft, Hampshire, GB;
Philip Jones, Winchester, GB;
Adam R. Rice, Winchester, GB;
Matthew Whitbourne, Winchester, GB;
Inventors:
Michael R. Croft, Hampshire, GB;
Philip Jones, Winchester, GB;
Adam R. Rice, Winchester, GB;
Matthew Whitbourne, Winchester, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 9/4446 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program is disclosed for managing a user interface (UI) for an application program in which a plurality of user interface methods are provided for a given application program function, one or more of the more frequently used UI options being maintained in the UI while one or more of the less frequently used UI options are removed.