Patent ID: 6310633
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for managing documents in a computer system, the computer system having a processor, a memory, a user input device, and a display, the method comprising:producing a representation of a document created by an application program running on the processor to a location in the memory;associating the representation with the document in the memory;displaying a document closet image on the display, the document closet image including a plurality of document images, each document image displaying a representation of the contents of an associated document in memory, wherein each document image possesses a title of the document printed down a side of the document image facing a user;selecting a document image from the plurality of document images in response to a first signal from the user input device; andorienting the document image selected for display to the user for viewing the representation of the contents.