Appeal No. 1999-1591
Application No. 08/665,616
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a method for displaying a window where the
size of the window is automatically resized in response to a deletion and/or an addition to
the window. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 12, which is reproduced below.
12. A method for displaying objects within a computer system, said method comprising
the steps of:
displaying a plurality of windows within said computer system;
identifying a first group of related objects within a first borderless window which
encompasses said first group of related objects;
creating a first borderless window which encompasses said first group of related
objects;
selecting a particular one of said first group of related objects;
changing a display attribute of said first borderless window in response to selection
of said particular one of said first group of related objects;
deleting said particular one of said first group of related objects; and
automatically altering said first borderless window to encompass only said
remaining related objects within said first group without extra space therein in response to
said deletion.
2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007