Monday, August 1, 2005

10 Inventions on Command Buttons in a Graphical User Interface

Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
A command button may contain a textual label or a graphic image or both. It may be static or animated. There can be many different features to make a command button attractive and effective. As command button is a typical GUI element, most improvement on GUI in general will also be applicable to command buttons. Besides, there are also inventions to improve various aspects of command buttons in specific. This article illustrates 10 selected inventions from US patent database. Each invention is followed by a TRIZ based analysis in brief.

Keywords: TRIZ, Software Inventions, Graphical User Interface, Software inventions, Software Patents, Inventive Problem Solving, Command buttons, push buttons, GUI, Invention, Patent,

Mishra, Umakant, 10 Inventions on Command Buttons in a Graphical User Interface. (December 6, 2006)  Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=949240

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