Patent ID: 7479968

Claim:
A method of highlighting a selected object in an electronic document, comprising: receiving a selection of an object displayed in an electronic document; in response to receiving a selection of an object displayed in an electronic document, generating an image in a memory location; drawing a geometric outline on the image, wherein the geometric outline is of a size and shape to form a path that encloses a space required for occupying the selected object; performing, at a computing device, an operation that fills a space that underlies the selected object interior of the path with semi-transparent colored pixels of a highlighting color, thereby highlighting the selected object without changing a color of the selected object; drawing the image onto an electronic display screen on which the selected object is displayed such that the path encloses a space on the display screen occupied by the selected object; and drawing the selected object onto the image such that the selected object is drawn in the space enclosed by the path and on top of the colored pixels filling the space interior of the path.