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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:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2011
Preston Jackson, Longmont, CO (US);
John Bacus, Boulder, CO (US);
Brian Brown, Longmont, CO (US);
Patrick Lacz, Boulder, CO (US);
Paul Mclean, Denver, CO (US);
Jeffrey Hauswirth, Westminster, CO (US);
Preston Jackson, Longmont, CO (US);
John Bacus, Boulder, CO (US);
Brian Brown, Longmont, CO (US);
Patrick Lacz, Boulder, CO (US);
Paul McLean, Denver, CO (US);
Jeffrey Hauswirth, Westminster, CO (US);
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for editing element attributes of a design within a user interface view are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention relate to reducing or eliminating the effort a user must put forth in editing attributes of a user specified element in moving from the user specified element in a main document window of the user interface to the far end of the main document window and then combing within a dense menu displaying every attribute for every element supported by the user interface. Further embodiments allow a user to easily filter through the dense menu displaying every attribute for every element to find the attributes that are specific to the element selected and do so without having to go to the dense menu displayed on the far side of the main document window. In one embodiment, this is achieved by displaying only the attributes specific to the user selected element in a user interactive palette where the user interactive palette is displayed in close proximity to the user selected element in the main document window. Each time a user selects an element a different user interactive palette will appear displaying the attributes specific to the user selected element and in close proximity to that element.