Patent ID: 6434629
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computing system comprising:a viewing screen which displays images; user interface means for enabling a user to select and move the images displayed by the viewing screen; a plurality of application processes, each application process including: command processor process for receiving semantic commands and for executing the semantic commands, each of the semantic commands identifying an entity being operated on, where identification of the entity is independent of location of the images on the viewing screen, and action processor process for monitoring selection and movement of the images on the viewing screen and for generating the semantic commands by lexical and syntactical analysis of the selection and movement of the images on the viewing screen, the semantic commands being sent directly to the command processor for execution; a data file which includes first semantic commands executable by a first application process from the plurality of application processes and which includes second semantic commands executable by a second application process from the plurality of application processes; and, agent engine process, separate from the plurality of application processes, for retrieving the first semantic commands from the data file, for sending the first semantic commands to the command processor process of the first application process for retrieving the second semantic commands from the data file, and for sending the second semantic commands to the command processor process of the second application process.