Graphical user interface with keyboard display graphical
First Claim
1. A method for controlling the operation of a digital computer system having a memory, a visual display, and a keyboard, said method causing said computer system to perform specific functions in successive repeatable tasks including the steps of:
- displaying user schematics of said successive tasks on said visual display in a format which contains in part an unchanging representation of at least a core plurality of keys of said keyboard in the same arrangement used on said keyboard;
indicating, within the unchanging representation of said core plurality of keys, a dynamically changeable function representation of functions to be performed upon operation of a corresponding one of said keys; and
changing said changeable representation in a hierarchal sequence and causing said computer system to perform said specific functions in response to successive operations of selected ones of said core plurality of said keys.
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Abstract
A method and system for controlling the operation of a digital computer system having a memory, visual display, and keyboard employs software for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) in the form of representations of successive tasks. This display is effected in a format which contains, in part, an unchanging representation of at least a core plurality of the keys of the keyboard used with the digital computer system. This representation is displayed in the same arrangement used on the keyboard. The GUI then further indicates within the unchanging representation of the core plurality of keys, a dynamically changeable function representation of the functions to be performed upon operation of the corresponding one of the displayed keys. This changeable function representation changes in a hierarchal sequence in response to successive operations of selected ones of the keys, as indicated on the visual display of the GUI.
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1. A method for controlling the operation of a digital computer system having a memory, a visual display, and a keyboard, said method causing said computer system to perform specific functions in successive repeatable tasks including the steps of:
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displaying user schematics of said successive tasks on said visual display in a format which contains in part an unchanging representation of at least a core plurality of keys of said keyboard in the same arrangement used on said keyboard; indicating, within the unchanging representation of said core plurality of keys, a dynamically changeable function representation of functions to be performed upon operation of a corresponding one of said keys; and
changing said changeable representation in a hierarchal sequence and causing said computer system to perform said specific functions in response to successive operations of selected ones of said core plurality of said keys. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A graphical user interface for use in controlling the operation of a digital computer system having a memory, a visual display and a keyboard, said graphical user interface including in combination:
a digital computer operatively connected to said memory, said visual display and said keyboard;
whereupon said digital computer is operated through said keyboard for performing functions structured as a series of hierarchal tasks displayed by said graphical user interface as;a primary display of user schematics of said hierarchal tasks on said visual display in a format which contains, in part, an unchanging representation of at least a core plurality of the keys of said keyboard in the same arrangement used on the keys of said keyboard; and indicating, within the unchanging representation of said core plurality of said keys, a dynamically changeable function representation of functions to be performed upon operation of a corresponding one of said keys of said keyboard, said changeable function representation changing in a hierarchal sequence in response to successive operations of selected ones of said keys of said keyboard. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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