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    Assisting user selection of graphical user interface elements
    21.
    发明专利
    Assisting user selection of graphical user interface elements 未知

    公开(公告)号：GB2348520A

    公开(公告)日：2000-10-04

    申请号：GB9907386

    申请日：1999-03-31

    Applicant: IBM

    Inventor： BIRD COLIN LEONARD ,  CHAPMAN SYDNEY GEORGE

    IPC: G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/00

    Abstract: Assisting a user of a graphical user interface (GUI) with the task of positioning an input device pointer (or otherwise indicating a position selection) when selecting a GUI element such as a button or other icon. The software identifies those GUI elements which are valid selections for the current application state, and a predefined set of characteristics for the identified GUI elements (and which can include the distance between the pointer and each element, and weightings associated with each element, e.g. based on statistics of previous user interaction sequences) are compared to predict which will be the next that the user will interact with. The pointer is moved to the position of the predicted GUI element, or emphasis is added to it. The user then decides whether this GUI element is required. The invention has particular advantages for: apparatus which use eye tracking mechanisms for user input; apparatus which have a relatively small area for displaying a GUI; apparatus having an input device which is hard to control; users of computing apparatus who have physical limitations on their ability to control input devices.

    Parallel data processing system
    23.
    发明专利
    Parallel data processing system 未知

    公开(公告)号：GB2323944A

    公开(公告)日：1998-10-07

    申请号：GB9706549

    申请日：1997-04-01

    Applicant: IBM

    Inventor： BIRD COLIN LEONARD ,  WALLIS GRAHAM DEREK

    IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F15/177 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/163 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F15/173

    Abstract: A parallel processing system having a number of processing nodes (S1...Sn) each of which is provided with a message handling kernel (13...n3) and an associated procedure register (14...n4), the procedure registers being loadable by loading means (4) under the control of an application (3) and the nodes being able to exchange messages over a message interface (2) and to process messages to determine the message handling procedures to be invoked by the associated node in accordance with the contents of the associated procedure register.

    Locating and sampling of data in parallel processing systems
    24.
    发明专利
    Locating and sampling of data in parallel processing systems 未知

    公开(公告)号：GB2315889A

    公开(公告)日：1998-02-11

    申请号：GB9616092

    申请日：1996-07-31

    Applicant: IBM

    Inventor： BIRD COLIN LEONARD ,  WALLIS GRAHAM DEREK

    IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F12/02

    Abstract: Provided is a method for reproducible sampling of data items of a dataset which is shared across a plurality of nodes of a parallel data processing system. In data mining of large databases, segmentation of the database is often necessary either to obtain a summary of the database or prior to an operation such as link analysis. A sample of data records are taken to create an initial segmentation model. The records of this sample and the initial model created from them can be critical to the results of the data mining process, and the initial model may not be reproducible unless the same sampling of data records is repeatable. Reproducible sampling is enabled without polling of all nodes to locate particular records, by providing each node with a small number of control parameters which describe the particular partitioning of the dataset and so enable computing of the location of a data record to allow for changes to the partitioning. The invention is applicable to other sampling methods.

    25.
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    公开(公告)号：DE2815307A1

    公开(公告)日：1978-10-26

    申请号：DE2815307

    申请日：1978-04-08

    Applicant: IBM

    Inventor： BARCLEY DONALD JOHN ,  BIRD COLIN LEONARD ,  LOWE ANTHONY CYRIL

    IPC: G02F1/15 ,  G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/155 ,  G02F1/163 ,  G02F1/17 ,  G09F9/30 ,  G09F9/00

    Abstract: An electrochromic display device has an improved counter electrode arrangement. The device has a plurality of display elctrodes and a counter electrode in contact with a first electrolyte of a primary redox system. The counter electrode is charged to a predetermined potential. A secondary redox system is associated with the primary redox system. A secondary electrode in the secondary redox system is electrically connected to the counter electrode to maintain the charge on the counter electrode at a predetermined potential.

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