Computer network and method for displacement of an object within a computer network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10146422-B2
Application number	US-201514730447-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 4, 2015
Priority date	Jun 4, 2014
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

In a computer network and a method for displacement of an object within a computer network, the computer network has a first computer system with a first graphical user interface and a second computer system with a second graphical user interface. A selection view of the second graphical user interface can be presented on the first graphical user interface, and a target location can be selected in the selection view. An object on the first graphical user interface can be displaced onto the target location.

First claim

We claim as our invention:

1. A computer network comprising:
a first computer comprising a first graphical user interface, said first computer being configured to allow selection of an object at said first graphical user interface by movement of a cursor onto the object at the first graphical user interface;
a second computer comprising a second graphical user interface, said second computer being in communication with said first computer;
said first and second computers being jointly configured to generate and receive electronic signals in order to exchange said electronic signals between said first and second computers to cause a selection view, which is a miniature view of said second graphical user interface, to be automatically presented within said object on said first graphical user interface in response to said cursor being moved onto the object at the first graphical user interface;
said first computer being configured to allow a target location to be selected in the selection view by a drag and drop movement of the cursor at the first graphical user interface from the object to the target location in the selected view presented at said first graphical user interface; and
said first and second computers being jointly configured to generate and receive further electronic signals in order to exchange said further electronic signals to cause said object to be moved from said first graphical user interface to a location on said second graphical user interface that is the same as said target location that was selected in the selection view at the first graphical interface, upon entry of an input made via said first computer.

2. The computer network as claimed in claim 1 wherein said selection view is a miniature view of said second graphical user interface.

3. The computer network as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first computer system is a component of a medical apparatus and said selected object is an acquired image, or a sequence of images, acquired with said medical apparatus.

4. The computer network as claimed in claim 1 comprising a common control element for said two computer systems.

5. The computer network as claimed in claim 1 wherein said first graphical user interface comprises at least one interactive region that causes said object to be selected when traversed by said cursor.

6. The computer network as claimed in claim 5 wherein said interactive region has a boundary region of said object.

7. A method for displacing an object from a first graphical user interface of a first computer onto a second graphical user interface of a second computer, said method comprising:
at a first computer comprising a first graphical user interface, selecting an object at said first graphical user interface by moving a cursor onto the object at the first graphical user interface;
placing said first computer in communication with a second computer comprising a second graphical user interface;
generate and receive electronic signals in order to exchange said electronic signals between said first and second computers to cause a selection view, which is a miniature view of said second graphical user interface, to be automatically presented within said object on said first graphical user interface in response to said cursor being moved onto the object at the first graphical user interface;
selecting a target location in the selection view by moving the cursor at the first graphical user interface in a drag and drop movement from the object to the target location in the selected view presented at said first graphical user interface; and
generate and receive further electronic signals in order to exchange said further electronic signals to cause said object to be moved from said first graphical user interface to said target location on said second graphical user interface that is the same as said target location that was selected in the selection view at the first graphical interface upon entry of an input made via said first computer.

8. A non-transitory, computer-readable data storage medium encoded with programming instructions, said storage medium being distributively loaded into a first computer, having a first graphical user interface, and into a second computer, having a second graphical user interface, said first and second computers being in communication with each other, and the distributed programming instructions causing said first and second computers to:
allow selection of an object at said first graphical user interface by movement of a cursor onto the object at the first graphical user interface;
generate and receive electronic signals in order to exchange said electronic signals between said first and second computers to cause a selection view, which is a miniature view of said second graphical user interface, to be automatically presented within said object on said first graphical user interface in response to said cursor being moved onto the object at the first graphical user interface;
allow a target location to be selected in the selection view by moving the cursor at the first graphical user interface in a drag and drop movement from the object to the target location in the selected view presented at said first graphical user interface; and
generate and receive further electronic signals in order to exchange said further electronic signals to cause said object to be moved from said first graphical user interface to said target location on said second graphical user interface that is the same as said target location that was selected in the selection view at the first graphical interface upon entry of an input made via said first computer.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Guehring Jens
• Nufer Stephan

Classifications

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F3/0486 Primary

  Drag-and-drop · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title