Patent ID: 6961906

Claim:
A method for retaining points of interest when switching between at least two windows running on a multiwindow computer system, the method comprising: (a) allowing a user to register at least one specific point of interest in each of the windows, wherein one of the windows is active and the other windows are inactive, by; (i) allowing the user to position the active mouse pointer at a desired location in the active window; (ii) in response to the user pressing a predefined button on a mouse, displaying a dialog box that displays a list of commands for user selection, which include a set command and a delete command; (iii) in response to the user selecting the set command, setting the point of interest by storing the x and y coordinates of the point of interest, an ID of the active window, and an ID of a next window; (b) displaying a persistent mouse pointer on each of the registered points of interest in the inactive windows; and (c) in response to the user making one of the inactive windows active, displaying an active mouse pointer at the location of the persistent mouse pointer in that window.