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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
May. 08, 2015
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Daren Rhoades, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Thomas James Buchanan, Vizcaya, ES;
Steven Robert Jankovich, Buena Park, CA (US);
SIEMENS PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A system having a processor is provided that visually manipulates objects on a touch screen responsive to inputs through the touch screen. Based at least in part on data representative of type and size for a plurality of prior objects displayed through a display device, the processor may determine that at least one input through the input device corresponds to a further object having a determined type corresponding to at least one of the prior objects and having a size within predetermined tolerances of corresponding to the at least one of the prior objects. Also the processor may cause responsive thereto the display device to display a replacement object in place of the further object having a size and shape corresponding to the at least one prior object.