US Patent Issued to Apple on May 31 for "Creation and Manipulation of Internet Location Objects in a Graphical User Interface Environment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 1 -- United States Patent no. 7,954,061, issued on May 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Creation and Manipulation of Internet Location Objects in a Graphical User Interface Environment" was invented by Peter Joseph McInerney (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Internet location objects are created and displayed as icons in a graphical user interface environment. When an object is dragged from within an application into a system window, a drag object describing what is being dragged is passed from the application to the operating system. Depending on the drag object, the file manager either causes an Internet location object to be created directly or intelligently parses a text string that has been dragged and dropped onto the user desktop to determine whether the text string is likely a URL. If a text string is found to likely be a URL, then an Internet location object is created to contain a URL by transforming the text string into the URL. When the user "opens" an Internet location object, a browser or other program is launched and retrieves the resource identified by the URL stored as part of the Internet location object."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2004, under Application No. 10/832,769.

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