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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

David J. Clark, Warwick, GB;

Lee M. Chase, Warwick, GB;

Mark A. Farmer, Warwick, GB;

Mark Gregory, Warwick, GB;

Ian D. Hancock, Warwick, GB;

Duncan J. Lilly, Warwick, GB;

Simon E. Moore, Warwick, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/4443 (2013.01); G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); H04M 1/72569 (2013.01); H04M 1/72583 (2013.01);
Abstract

Associating user interface elements with information ancillary to said user interface elements includes creating one or more items of user interface element ancillary information, receiving a request for user interface element ancillary information, the request identifying the context in which the information is to be used, searching, using a processor, said one or more items of user interface element ancillary information for items matching the context in which the information is to be used, and returning one or more items of user interface element ancillary information matching the context in which the information is to be used.


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