US PATENT SUBCLASS 345 / 326
OPERATOR INTERFACE

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345 /   HD   COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROCESSING, OPERATOR INTERFACE PROCESSING, AND SELECTIVE VISUAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS

326OPERATOR INTERFACE {6}
327  DF  .~> Interaction in a television environment {1}
329  DF  .~> For plural users or sites {2}
333  DF  .~> Interface customization or edition {2}
336  DF  .~> Having on-line help {2}
339  DF  .~> On-screen workspace or object {6}
358  DF  .~> Gesture-based

DEFINITION

Classification: 345/326

OPERATOR INTERFACE:

(under the class definition) Subject matter wherein a user's interaction with a computer system is used to control the

presentation of display data. Such interaction is interpreted and used by a data processor or computer architecture wherein system level elements of computation or data processing techniques are used prior to use with or in a specific display system.

(1) Note. Significantly claimed structure external to the user interface methods or apparatuses, claimed in combination with subject matter under this operator interface subclass, which displays or produces an image or sensory message related to such external structure or its function, is classified in the class appropriate to the external structure; however, nominally claimed structure external to this subclass, claimed in combination with subject matter under this subclass definition (i.e., creation or manipulation of icons, menus, windows, and user interactive functions), is classified in these subclasses unless provided for in the appropriate external subclass.

(2) Note. Processing of interactive data for presentation with at most a nominal recitation of the input device (i.e., where the user's input is used to control the presentation of display data) is classified herein.

(3) Note. Windowing techniques which can include interactive processes are classified herein.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

1+, for claims which recite specific display systems which include display memory organization and structure for storing an image and manipulating image data between the display memory and the display system.

156+, for details of a user input interface device with a specific display system, per se, both physical (e.g., mouse, joystick, keyboard, light pen, touch screen) and logical (e.g., cursor-pick, select,-choice). 418+, for a specific hardware for performing s:graphical data processing.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

705, Data Processing-Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination,

1+, for use of operator interface in electronic financial or business management systems, particularly subclasses 26+ for electronic shopping systems utilizing operator interface.