Combining and displaying multiple document areas

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018039604-A1
Application number	US-201715723321-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 3, 2017
Priority date	Oct 21, 2014
Publication date	Feb 8, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A device for combining and displaying a plurality of areas of a document, the device comprising computer hardware components configured to perform a method comprising:
storing, in response to a user marking an area of the document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and forming, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact.

2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises changing the joined icon and changing a combining state of the marked areas in response to an operation by the user for separating part of the joined icon, enabling contact of a new icon, or rotating the joined icon.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• MOCHIZUKI Tomoka
• Shioya Tomohiro
• Unno Asuka
• WEN Lianzi

Classifications

• G06F40/106 Primary

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title

• G06F3/04845

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• G06F40/117

  Tagging; Marking up (details of markup languages G06F40/143); Designating a block; Setting of attributes (style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154) · CPC title

• G06F40/166

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title

• G06F2203/04803

  Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas · CPC title