Priority selection on a graphical interface
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1. An priority-controller icon displayed on a graphical user interface of a computer system, the icon comprising:
- one or more locations, each location associated with a priority of execution and a first location being one of the locations;
a threshold distance for each of the locations, where an icon, representing a process, is placed on the graphical user interface within the threshold distance of the first location causing the process represented by the icon to be assigned the priority of execution of the first location.
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Abstract
Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange icons by having the icons be consolidated in priority-control icons (PCI) containing regions. Regions may be on icons, windows, or other graphical objects. For example, when an icon representing a process is dragged close to a region on a PCI, the priority of that process is changed. The priority value depends upon to which region on the PCI a process is dragged.
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1. An priority-controller icon displayed on a graphical user interface of a computer system, the icon comprising:
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one or more locations, each location associated with a priority of execution and a first location being one of the locations; a threshold distance for each of the locations, where an icon, representing a process, is placed on the graphical user interface within the threshold distance of the first location causing the process represented by the icon to be assigned the priority of execution of the first location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer system with a computer memory and a central processing unit, comprising:
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a graphical user interface; one or more priority-controller icons displayed on the graphical user interface, each of the priority-controller icons having one or more locations, each location associated with a priority of execution, and a first location being one of the locations; a threshold distance for each of the locations, where an icon, representing a process, is placed on the graphical user interface within the threshold distance of the first location causing the process represented by the icon to be assigned the priority of execution of the first location. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method of assigning an execution priority to a process running on a computer system comprising the steps of:
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a. selecting an icon that represents the process on a graphical user interface; b. moving the icon to within a threshold distance of first location being one of one or more locations on a priority-controller icon; c. assigning the process represented by the icon an execution priority the is associated with the first location.
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25. An priority-controller icon displayed on a graphical user interface of a computer system, the icon comprising:
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one or more locations means for designating a priority of execution and a first location means being one of the location means; a threshold distance means, for each of the location means, for determining if an icon means, representing a process, is placed on the graphical user interface within the threshold distance means of the first location means so that the process represented by the icon means is assigned the priority of execution of the first location means.
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