Patent ID: 7350158
Filing Date: 2008-03-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An icon display system which displays a movable plurality of icons in a circular orbit as an icon train on a display screen, the system comprising: means for managing the plurality of icons displayed in the orbit according to a numerical upper limit; means for managing, one or more displayed icons in excess of the upper limit as an invisible icon or icon train that is contiguous to the icon train displayed in the orbit; means for updating the icon train displayed in the orbit according to an external command; and means for having an icon newly registered as invisible disappear from the orbit with visual effect, and having an icon newly registered as visible appear in the orbit with visual effect wherein, a discontinuity is formed in the circular orbit and the icon newly registered as invisible disappears at the discontinuity of the orbit with visual effect, while the icon newly registered as visible appears at the discontinuity of the orbit with visual effect.