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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Edward P. Hogan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Matthew R. Lehrian, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Zachariah N. Paine, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/245 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to the resizing of tables elements, such as rows or columns of a table. In one embodiment, a user selects two or more rows or columns to be resized and performs a column or row manipulation corresponding to the desired resize event, such as be interacting with an edge of one of the selected rows or columns. In an implementation, the user may toggle between the use of different resizing algorithms to see the effects of the different resizing algorithms.