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.
Claims20
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;
- and
- combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact.
A computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage 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;
- and
- combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact.
A computer system comprising:
- one or more computers;
- one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage 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;
- and
- combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.