Richard Harrison Mcdaniel

US Patent:

56340192, May 27, 1997

Filed:

Jun 6, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/468833

Inventors:

Srinivasa R. Koppolu - Redmond WA
C. Douglas Hodges - Redmond WA
Barry B. MacKichan - Bainbridge Island WA
Richard McDaniel - Pittsburgh PA
Rao V. Remala - Woodinville WA
Antony S. Williams - Redmond WA

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 1500
G06F 700

US Classification:

395335

Abstract:

A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has container resources for interacting with the container object. The containee object has a server application with a server window environment with server resources for interacting with the containee object. The method of the present invention displays the container window environment on a display device. A user then selects the containee object. In response to selecting the containee object, the method integrates a plurality of the server resources with the displayed container window environment. When a user then selects a server resource, the method invokes the server application to process the server resource selection. Conversely, when a user selects a container resource, the method invokes the container application to process the container resource selection.