Software notes
First Claim
1. A method of dispensing notes from a note dispenser, the method comprising the steps, performed by a data processing system, of:
- moving an indicator of the data processing system to the note dispenser residing at a first location and activating a control while the indicator is over the note dispenser to pop up a note at a second location without moving the indicator to the second location, wherein the first and second locations are different locationsmoving the note to a third location by use of the indicator and,attaching the note to the third location only if the third location is a location that can accept the note.
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Abstract
The present invention implements, in a data processing environment, many of the attributes of paper Post-it® notes. The note program of the present invention need not be resident in an application program, and the notes of the present invention may be moved directly between windows or between regions without being saved in an intermediate memory, may be easily dispensed either from a note dispenser of a window or on a desktop, may overlap the boundary of a window, may be automatically saved, may be attached to a document within a window so that the note moves with the document, may overlap a boundary of a window, may be resized with the constraint that the note may not be resized off of a window, may be moved across a window boundary, and may be attached to an object, such as a character, a word, a sentence, or paragraph of a document.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of dispensing notes from a note dispenser, the method comprising the steps, performed by a data processing system, of:
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moving an indicator of the data processing system to the note dispenser residing at a first location and activating a control while the indicator is over the note dispenser to pop up a note at a second location without moving the indicator to the second location, wherein the first and second locations are different locations moving the note to a third location by use of the indicator and, attaching the note to the third location only if the third location is a location that can accept the note. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of dispensing a note from a title bar comprising the steps, performed by a data processing system, of:
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displaying a window having a title bar in response to execution of program cods in the data processing system displaying a note symbol in the title bar in response to execution of program code in the data processing system and, dispensing a note by use of the note symbol and attaching the note to a site only if the site is a location that can accept the note. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method performed by a data processing system of dispensing notes from a note dispenser comprising
moving a mouse cursor of the data processing system to the note dispenser; -
grabbing a note from the note dispenser by depressing a mouse button while the mouse cursor is over the note dispenser; dragging the grabbed note to a desired location by moving the mouse cursor while the mouse button is maintained depressed; and
,dropping the grabbed note at the desired location by releasing the mouse button while the mouse cursor is over the desired location; and
,attaching the note to the desired location only if the desired location is a location that can accept the note. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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