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United States Patent | 5,544,051 |
Senn , et al. | August 6, 1996 |
A document management apparatus minimizes the busy time of a cursor by using asynchronous servicing of responses from repositories, and by executing the cursor control process during time intervals between receiving responses. Also during these time intervals, other processes can be launched in response to actions using the cursor and commands initiated by the user. The apparatus has a find tool to transmit a first search request for a category of documents; processing a first response to the first request, the first response having a list of documents found in the category; and transmitting a search request for selected attribute value pairs for each document in the list. The apparatus has a display comprising: a document display for displaying a blank document screen object for each document in the list; updating a screen object corresponding to a document whose attribute is received by the apparatus, the update occurring in response to receipt of a message carrying the attribute and corresponding value.
Inventors: | Senn; Jeffrey A. (Pittsburgh, PA), Lucas; Peter (Pittsburgh, PA) |
Assignee: |
Digital Equipment Corporation
(Maynard,
MA)
|
Appl. No.: | 08/406,831 |
Filed: | March 20, 1995 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
123406 | Sep., 1993 | ||||
Current U.S. Class: | 1/1 ; 707/999.003; 707/E17.008 |
Current International Class: | G06F 17/30 (20060101); G06F 017/40 () |
Field of Search: | 395/155,157,153,154,600,650 364/419.19 |
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