Patent ID: 6638313
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of utilizing a document stream operating system that in turn utilizes subsystems from at least one other operating system, comprising:receiving documents from diverse applications in formats that are specific to the respective applications and differ as between at least some of said applications; automatically associating time-based indicators with the documents received in the receiving step from the diverse applications; automatically archiving the received documents; automatically creating glance views that are abbreviated versions of respective ones of said documents; selectively displaying at least some of said documents as a receding, foreshortened stack of partly overlapping documents so that only a part of each of said documents in the displayed stack, after the first document in the stack, is visible to the user; said displaying further including displaying a cursor or pointer and responding to a user sliding the cursor or pointer over said displayed stack to display the glance view of the document in the stack that is currently touched by the cursor or pointer, without requiring clicking on the document; and utilizing, in said document stream operating system, subsystems from said at least one other operating system for operations including writing documents to storage media, interrupt handling and input/output.