Fast cursor location

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990736-B2
Application number	US-201213345802-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2012
Priority date	Jan 9, 2012
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for fast mouse pointer location. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for fast mouse pointer location includes determining a contemporaneous location of a mouse pointer in a GUI of a host computer, dimensioning in memory of the host computer different shapes and arranging the shapes to proximately meet at a point of intersection, overlaying the shapes in the GUI at a position proximate to the contemporaneous location of the mouse pointer, displaying the shapes in the GUI for a brief period of time before hiding the shapes from view in the GUI and repeating the determining, dimensioning, overlaying and displaying for different movements of the mouse pointer in the GUI.

First claim

I claim:

1. A computer data processing system comprising:
a host computer with at least one processor and memory;
an operating system executing in the host computer;
a graphical user interface (GUI) provided by the operating system for different applications hosted by the operating system; and,
a fast cursor location module coupled to the GUI, the module comprising program code that when executed in the host computer,
determines a contemporaneous location of a mouse pointer…

Assignees

• Fletcher Benjamin J
• IBM

Inventors

• Fletcher Benjamin J

Classifications

• G06F3/04812 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0481 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic