Method and apparatus for cataloging screen shots of a program
OwnerSushma Patel, Keiichi Yamamoto +1inventors
InventorsSushma Patel, Keiichi Yamamoto, Kin Yu
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Abstract
A screen shot of a window of a program is taken. A computer program queries data structures that are a source for aspects of the screen shot. The program objects return text strings associated with the window to the computer program. The computer program associates a unique identifier, the screen shot and the text strings together into a second data structure.
Claims20
A computer implemented method for associating text in a data structure describing a set of graphical objects with a resultant image of a displayed graphical object on a computer display comprising:
- introspecting the data structure to obtain a text string;
- storing the text string in a second data structure;
- associating a unique identifier with the second data structure;
- and
- associating the resultant image to the second data structure.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for associating text in a data structure describing a set of graphical objects with a resultant image of a displayed graphical object on a computer display, said computer program product including:
- computer usable program code for introspecting the data structure to obtain a widget string;
- computer usable program code for storing the widget string in a second data structure;
- computer usable program code for associating a unique identifier with the second data structure;
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- computer usable program code for associating the resultant image to the second data structure.
A data processing system comprising:
- a bus;
- a storage device connected to the bus, wherein computer usable code is located in the storage device;
- a communication unit connected to the bus;
- a processing unit connected to the bus, wherein the processing unit executes the computer usable code to introspect a data structure to obtain a text string;
- store the text string in a second data structure;
- associate a unique identifier with the second data structure;
- and associate a resultant image to the second data structure, wherein the resultant image is derived from the data structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.