This is US Patent 5345551. Sounds like the one.
Also, patents 5802531, 5740455, 5664208, 5628010, and 5537587 from 1996-1998 reference this one.
(btw- you can search patents at patents.ibm.com
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Inventor(s):
Shelley; Monte F. , Orem, UT
Rosenvall; James S. , Provo, UT
Applicant(s):
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Issued/Filed Dates:
Sept. 6, 1994 / Nov. 9, 1992
Application Number:
US1992000973780
IPC Class:
G06F 003/14; G06F 009/46; G06F 015/40;
Class:
395/157; 395/650; 395/144; 395/145; 364/419.19;
Field of Search:
395/157,155,158,144,145,148,146,650 364/419.17,419.18,419.19,419.07
Abstract:
A method and system for synchronizing the presentation of data from
different, but related, sources in different windows of a computer
display. Data is positioned using duplicate sectional names that are
in each of the data sources that are being synchronized. Even though
the sectional names in each data source are the same, the contents
of the sections can be different, independent, and unrelated.
Multiple views of a single data source in different windows can be
synchronized, showing data from many different locations within each
data source. This allows authors and content experts to
simultaneously show data from dissimilar data sources that have a
logical connection, such as footnotes or commentary to a text,
translations of a text, or updates to a read-only file. |
