Patent ID: 6195092
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method of editing the attribute values of object-oriented programming graphical objects in an oil-well log graphics display comprising the steps of:a) providing a presentation editor computer display, with a spreadsheet-like graphical user interface (GUI) display and a set of command functions, the presentation editor is selected by a user from an oil-well display;b) displaying multiple oil-well log graphical objects concurrently within the spreadsheet-like graphical user GUI display of the presentation editor;c) displaying attributes of the multiple oil-well graphical objects within the spreadsheet-like graphical user GUI display of the presentation editor;d) changing the attribute values of a graphical object in response to a user selecting the attribute to be changed and selecting a command from the set of command functions; ande) automatically applying the changed attributes to the multiple oil-well graphical objects, selected by the user, displayed within the presentation editor computer display, wherein user selected attributes are copied from a first graphical object to one or more target graphical objects displayed within the presentation editor computer display by the user first selecting the attributes of the first graphical object, selecting one or more target graphical objects, and using a command function, copying the attributes from the first graphical object to the selected target graphical objects.