Combining and displaying multiple document areas
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
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Abstract
A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- storing, in response to a user marking an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area;
- displaying an icon representing the marked area;
- conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area;
- and
- forming, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together;
- combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact;
- and
- changing the joined icon and changing a combining state of the marked areas in response to an operation by the user for separating part of the joined icon or rotating the joined icon.
A computer program product comprising:
- one or more hardware computer readable recording media and program instructions stored on the one or more hardware computer readable recording media, the program instructions comprising instructions to:
- storing, in response to a user marking an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area;
- displaying an icon representing the marked area;
- conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area;
- and
- forming, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together;
- combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact;
- and
- changing the joined icon and changing a combining state of the marked areas in response to an operation by the user for separating part of the joined icon or rotating the joined icon.
A computer system comprising:
- one or more computers;
- one or more computer readable recording media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable recording media, the program instructions comprising instructions to:
- storing, in response to a user marking an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area;
- displaying an icon representing the marked area;
- conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area;
- and
- forming, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together;
- combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact;
- and
- changing the joined icon and changing a combining state of the marked areas in response to an operation by the user for separating part of the joined icon or rotating the joined icon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.