Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
Selecting an object or element is a fundamental operation in
any graphic user interface. It is necessary to select an object before doing
any operation (such as, dragging, copying, opening, deleting etc.) on that
object. The GUI may provide features to select any single object or even
multiple objects. The feature of selecting multiple objects can provides tremendous
power to the GUI as the user can do complex operations on multiple objects in
one go.
However, the process of selection is not as simple as it
appears to the user of a GUI. The internal logic of a selection mechanism can
be very complex in some situations. The article describes some fundamental
difficulties associated with the selection mechanism, and illustrates the
solutions provided by different inventions selected from US patent database.
Keywords: TRIZ, Software Inventions, Graphical User Interface,
Software inventions, Software Patents, Inventive Problem Solving, GUI, GUI
selection, GUI operations, Multiple selection, file selection, selection box,
item selection
Umakant Mishra, Inventions on
Selecting GUI Elements (September 7, 2007), Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1264692
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