User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects
CA 1301355 C · Owner: Card, Stuart K. · Inventors: Card, Stuart K.; Henderson, D. Austin, Jr.; Maxwell, John T. Iii
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Workspaces provided by an object-based user interface appear to share windows and other display objects. Each workspace's data structure includes, for each window in that workspace a linking data structure called, a placement which links to the display system object which provides that window, which may be a display system object in a preexisting window system. The placement also contains display characteristics of the window when displayed in that workspace, such as position and size. Therefore a, display system object can be linked to several workspaces by a placement in each of the workspaces' data structures and the window it provides to, each of those workspaces can have unique display …
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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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