Brian P Davie

US Patent:

59736658, Oct 26, 1999

Filed:

Nov 7, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/745091

Inventors:

Brian John Davie - Cambridge MA
Timothy Dan Greer - Endicott NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G09G 522

US Classification:

345141

Abstract:

Method and apparatus for controlling a display device displaying a plurality of display elements, such as character strings, fields, icons, buttons and so forth. Responsive to user entry of a display indicia, such as a character string entered at a keyboard, or a field or button activated at the screen by a cursor or mouse pointer, determining if at least one display element corresponds to the display indicia; and if so temporarily highlighting that display element.