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US5796401:
System for designing dynamic layouts adaptable to various display screen sizes and resolutions
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Winer, Peter W.; Los Altos, CA 94024
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1998-08-18
/ 1996-08-09
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| Application Number: |
US1996000694992
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G06T 11/60;
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IPC-7:
G06F 15/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06T11/60;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
345/619;
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345/433;
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| Field of Search: |
345/433,439,428,127
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| Priority Number: |
| 1996-08-09 |
US1996000694992 |
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| Abstract: |
An intelligent layout system for drawing objects and organizing the drawn objects. The layout system facilitates creation of objects, such as boxes that can contain text, graphics, outlines, titles, headlines, and other information and data, to provide a custom dashboard layout, as well as serves as a layout manager for organization of the objects. Additionally, the layout system enables objects to be manipulated individually or as a group and to be arranged permanently in various relationships, in which various components or attributes of the objects are interrelated. For example, the layout system enables a user to interrelate objects in one or more permanent relationships by selectively distributing, aligning, sizing, and/or spacing the objects. The layout system also provides a graphical user interface design tool for designing dynamic page layouts that automatically adapt to various page sizes and display screen sizes and resolutions. The layout system enables objects to be connected to the edge or edges of one or more pages in an intuitive and gestural manner to provide a dynamic page layout tool that automatically moves objects and causes them to re-size automatically to adapt the size and position of the objects if the page is re-sized or the size or resolution of the display screen is altered.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Milks, III, William C. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Nguyen, Phu K.;
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None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A layout system for drawing objects and organizing the drawn objects to facilitate creation of objects, such as boxes that can contain text, graphics, outlines, titles, headlines, animation, video, and other information and data, to provide a custom layout as well as to serve as a layout manager for organization of the objects, comprising:
- a processor for executing a program;
- a program executable in the processor, the program comprising subroutines for designing a graphical user interface, the subroutines for enabling objects to be created and manipulated both individually and as a group and to be arranged permanently in various relationships, in which components of the objects are interrelated;
- a display screen connected to the processor for displaying the graphical user interface comprising the objects; and
- user input means connected to the processor and able to be manipulated by a user to interrelate objects in one or more permanent relationships by selectively distributing, aligning, sizing, or spacing components of the objects.
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