Patent ID: 7696979
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An improved system for selecting within a display device of a data processing system, the system comprising: a processor system that causes the display device to simultaneously display a plurality of graphical pointers within a graphical user interface having one or more windows, wherein each of the plurality of graphical pointers is separate from the one or more windows, graphically movable with respect to the one or more windows, and repositionable independently from the one or more windows; a graphical pointing device interfaced to said processor system such that a temporarily selected graphical pointer among said plurality of graphical pointers is moved with respect to the one or more windows in response to manipulation of said graphical pointing device during said selection; and a switch associated with said selected graphical pointer among said plurality of graphical pointers, wherein closure of said switch selects a graphical object within said graphical user interface graphically underlying a position of said selected graphical pointer within the graphical user interface.