Appeal No. 2000-0467
Application 08/511,645
26. A method for manipulating objects in a graphical user
interface for a computer, of the type in which representations of
objects stored in a memory are displayed to a user on a display,
comprising the steps of:
selecting a first object whose representation is displayed
on said display;
dragging the representation of the first object form a first
location on the display to a second location associated with a
second object;
determining whether said second object is either a service
object or a container object;
performing a service with respect to said first object if
said second object is a service object;
detecting whether access to said first object is limited;
moving the representation of the first object from said
first location to a new location associated with said second
object if said second object is a container object, regardless of
a source of the first object if access to said first object is
not limited; and
prohibiting the movement of the representation of the first
object to said new location if access to said first object is
limited.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Owens et al. (Owens) 5,530,865 Jun. 25, 1996
R. E. Berry, The Designer’s Model of The CUA Workplace, IBM
Systems Journal Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 429-458, 1992.
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