Search controls allowing a user to use a keyboard and display to select from a plurality of entries
CA 1301348 C · Owner: Hewlett-Packard Company · Inventors: Weiner, Jonathan Adam
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An improved apparatus and method for selecting entries within a plurality of entries is presented. The preferred embodiment of the invention includes a search control processor which causes an edit box and a list box to be displayed on a display. In the list box is displayed a subset of entries from a plurality of entries. As letters are typed on a keyboard the, letters are displayed in the edit box. The search control processor causes a first entry from the plurality of entries to be highlighted when the first letter(s) of the first entry match the letters displayed in the edit box and when the first entry in in alphabetical order before any other entry from the plurality of entries whose …
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- Granted May 19, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 19, 2009.
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