Time line for desktop metaphor
AssigneeNetscape Communications Corporation
InventorsSteven F. Mansour, German W. Bauer
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Abstract
An interface for scheduling temporal events is provided in the form of a time line associated with a desktop metaphor. The interface comprises a clock representation in any of several formats that is associated with a display, where the clock has a first display configuration that is integrated into an electronic desktop in a seamless and consistent fashion, and that represents a most minimized state of the scheduling interface. The clock also has one or more additional display configurations that represent expanded states to provide a time line representation of such items scheduled events, related documentation, participant identity, and resource management tools.
Claims20
An interface for scheduling, comprising:
- a clock associated with a display, said clock having a first display configuration representing a most minimized state of said scheduling interface;
- said clock having at least a second display configuration representing an expanded state to provide a time line;
- wherein moving a cursor over any particular event line displays event information for that event in the foreground;
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- wherein said time line itself moves in accordance with the passage of time to present current time in a most prominent location along said time line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.