Patent ID: 7404149
Filing Date: 2008-07-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing user-defined assistive graphical user interface (“GUI”) glue, comprising steps of: enabling a user to mark a plurality of user-selected areas of a GUI, wherein at least one area of the GUI is not included in any marked area; programmatically detecting when a graphical pointer that corresponds to movement of a pointing device moves into one or more of the marked areas; displaying, on the GUI responsive to the programmatically detecting step, a visual indicator over each of the one or more marked areas in which the graphical pointer is currently located; and programmatically slowing a speed of the graphical pointer, relative to movement of the pointing device, responsive to the programmatically detecting step, by a first factor if the graphical pointer is currently located in a single one of the marked areas and by a different factor if the graphical pointer is currently located in overlapping ones of the marked areas and maintaining the programmatically-slowed speed and the displayed visual indicator until programmatically detecting that the graphical pointer is no longer located in any of the marked areas.