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Method for simultaneous update and change in parent and child windows

  • US 5,226,117 A
  • Filed: 05/15/1990
  • Issued: 07/06/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a data processing system including a processor, a memory, display means and input means, a method of simultaneously updating hierarchically related windows within a multiwindow graphical interface in which the hierarchically related windows are elements in a logical ranking, the method comprising the steps of:

  • responsive to a first input by a user indicating that a first set of data within a first window is to be updated, searching for at least a second hierarchically related window;

    searching said second hierarchically related window for a second occurrence of said first set of data;

    upon finding said first set of data in said hierarchically related second window, simultaneously updating said first set of data in both said first window and said second hierarchically related window without requiring the user to manipulate within said second related window.

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