Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1996-10-11
1999-05-25
Feild, Joseph H.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345327, 707501, 707513, G06F 305
Patent
active
059073209
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a new, time-based method for controlling the storage and retrieval of multi-media information by the successive selection of the values of their attributes. In accordance with the invention, a user may contact a remote multi-media information storage medium via a communications medium and, using special signals, control the sequence of attribute selection messages that are transmitted. One, several, or all of the values of a particular attribute can be selected, which in turn, determine the related values of the attributes to be subsequently transmitted. In this manner, the progressive selection of attribute values narrows down the number of items of multi-media information available for retrieval, or in the case of storage, the appropriate final storage location. The user may order the transmission of the attributes to optimize the search process. The concepts of attribute-value completeness and accuracy can be employed to enable a best-fit search to be made of the stored multi-media information. In a further refinement, when no item information match occurs, the user may request the system store the series of attribute values of his inquiry. The system can then make periodic searches of the database. The user is contacted when a match occurs. A method for alphanumeric input using a multi-key sequence on a generic key pad is also disclosed.
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Beesley John
Callan, III James E.
Feild Joseph H.
Hong Stephen
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