Computer object managing container and managing method thereof

• US 6,177,935 B1
• Filed: 03/18/1998
• Issued: 01/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Munn, Kyong-Sok
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H.
• Application Number:
  US09/040,152
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 345/326, 345/335, 345/343, 345/344, 345/345, 345/346, 345/348, 345/339, 345/350, 707/500, 707/501, 707/514, 707/515, 707/516, 707/523, 707/530, 707/531
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

An object data managing system allows users to effectively manage object data when making a document by establishing an icon or categorizing a plurality of objects without any modifications or additions to an existing interface, thereby enabling the object data to be copied or moved without being damaged.

Claims

1. A method for managing an object-oriented programming object, comprising the steps of:

when an object is to be managed and when it is determined that it is, possible to copy or move said object, then determining if said object is of the format of a particular program;

when said object is determined to be not of the format of said particular program, then executing a general object-linked embedding object managing module; and

when said object is determined to be of the format of said particular program, then storing the data of the object, then registering the clipboard format of said data of said object and determining if the data are available;

then, displaying, in a scrap book, an icon and object information corresponding to said object; and

executing a scrapbook managing module comprising the steps of;

displaying the dragging and dropping of an icon corresponding to said object into the scrap book; and

executing the steps of getting data, setting data and creating from data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

determining if the stored data of said object are of the format of said particular program;

when said data are determined to be of the format of said particular program, then adding the stored data to said object; and

encapsulating said object as an object-linked embedding object.

3. The method of claim 1, said particular program being Hun-min-jeong-eum.

4. The method of claim 2, said particular program being Hun-min-jeong-eum.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

displaying said icon corresponding to said object in a window comprising;

a window caption having an object container visual button;

a worksheet;

a scrap book menu tab; and

a scrap book in which said icon is displayed.

6. The method of claim 5, said window further comprising:

a plurality of scrap book menu tabs, for selecting the display of additional scrap books.