公开(公告)号：US06181838B2

公开(公告)日：2001-01-30

申请号：US09302345

申请日：1999-04-29

申请人： Kenneth Charles Knowlton

发明人： Kenneth Charles Knowlton

IPC分类号： G06K954

CPC分类号： G06F17/30873

摘要： A visual link mechanism residing in a local system for identifying addresses of locations in the plurality of remote systems wherein the local system is connected through a network to the plurality of remote systems. The visual link mechanism includes a visual link library and a network access mechanism responsive to a visual link including a displayable graphic icon for accessing the location represented by a selected graphic icon. Various structures of visual links are described, each being an entity existing independently of the system environment in which it resides, and the network access mechanism includes a layout table for storing a plurality of plans for arranging and displaying a plurality of visual link graphic icons in a display, a visual links organizer, a visual link screen saver, and a hash protection mechanism for detecting the unauthorized construction or modification of visual links or other forms of files. Also described is a visual link capture engine for extracting graphics information from a data file and generating a corresponding graphic icon and a display layout generator for generating display layouts of sets of predetermined numbers of displayable visual objects.

摘要翻译： 驻留在本地系统中的可视链接机构，用于识别多个远程系统中的位置的地址，其中本地系统通过网络连接到多个远程系统。 可视链接机构包括可视链接库和响应于包​​括可显示图形图标的视觉链接的网络访问机制，用于访问由所选图形图标表示的位置。 描述了可视链接的各种结构，每一个都是独立于其驻留的系统环境而存在的实体，并且网络访问机制包括布局表，用于存储用于安排和显示多个可视链接图形图标的多个计划 显示器，视觉链接组织器，可视链接屏幕保护程序和用于检测未经授权的构造或修改视觉链接或其他形式的文件的散列保护机制。 还描述了一种用于从数据文件中提取图形信息并生成相应的图形图标的视觉链接捕获引擎和用于产生预定数量的可显示视觉对象的集合的显示布局的显示布局生成器。