Graphical input device with dynamic field width adjustment for input of variable data via a browser-based display
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1. A data input method comprising:
- executing a client-side script that is browser neutral interpreted language that interacts with mark-up language based source code and software applications used to locate and display web pages;
generating and displaying on a web page a graphical input device with an initial data entry field display width;
providing said graphical input device as a non-menu, text-input graphic device in place of a defined drop-down menu but having the general appearance of the drop-down menu;
sensing user selection of said graphical input device;
sensing user entry, on said graphical input device, of a character sequence including at least one character;
displaying the character-by-character user-selectable choice in the initial data entry field;
automatically and dynamically determining a width of a second display as a function of the user-selectable choices'"'"' full display width necessary to make visible the widest one of the user-selectable choices, said user selectable choices not being truncated in said second display;
displaying said second display near the initial data entry field; and
sensing an acceptance action by the user, reflecting the current user selected choice.
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Abstract
A graphical input device having the appearance of a drop-down menu in a browser-based display is generated locally, within a user'"'"'s computer, in place of a pull-down menu expressed in a mark-up language such as HTML or its derivatives downloaded into the user'"'"'s computer. The set of possible entries to be displayed along with the graphical input device may vary depending on the user. The minimum display width needed for full-width display of even the widest entry is evaluated locally by scripting and the width of the displayed graphical input device is adjusted accordingly. The drop-down list and its listed entries may be wider than the data entry field. The user can thus view and select customized possible entries that cannot fit within the nominal displayed data entry field of the assumed pull-down menu.
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1. A data input method comprising:
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executing a client-side script that is browser neutral interpreted language that interacts with mark-up language based source code and software applications used to locate and display web pages; generating and displaying on a web page a graphical input device with an initial data entry field display width; providing said graphical input device as a non-menu, text-input graphic device in place of a defined drop-down menu but having the general appearance of the drop-down menu; sensing user selection of said graphical input device; sensing user entry, on said graphical input device, of a character sequence including at least one character; displaying the character-by-character user-selectable choice in the initial data entry field; automatically and dynamically determining a width of a second display as a function of the user-selectable choices'"'"' full display width necessary to make visible the widest one of the user-selectable choices, said user selectable choices not being truncated in said second display; displaying said second display near the initial data entry field; and sensing an acceptance action by the user, reflecting the current user selected choice. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. an input method comprising:
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executing a client-side script module that is stored within the user'"'"'s computer, a browser neutral interpreted language that interacts with mark up language based source code and software applications used to locate and display web pages; generating and displaying on a web page a graphical input device with an initial data entry field display width; providing said graphical input device as a non-menu, text-input graphic device in place of a defined drop-down menu but having the general appearance of the drop-down menu; sensing user selection of said graphical input device; sensing user entry, on said graphical input device, of a character sequence, including at least one character; displaying the character-by-character user-selectable choice in the initial data entry field; automatically and dynamically determining a width of a second display as a function of the user-selectable choices'"'"' full display width necessary to make visible the widest one of the user-selectable choices, said user selectable choices not being truncated in said second display; displaying the second display near the initial data entry field; sensing an acceptance action by the user, reflecting the current user selected choice. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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Current AssigneeInterface IP Holdings LLC
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Original AssigneeCall-Tell LLC
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InventorsTreibach-Heck, Varda, Caldwell, Byron G., Johnson, Bruce
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Primary Examiner(s)Lo, Weilun
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Assistant Examiner(s)TRAN, MYLINH T
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Application NumberUS11/445,909Publication NumberTime in Patent Office788 DaysField of Search715/734, 715/735, 715/736, 715/737, 715/738, 715/739, 715/749, 715/760, 715/788, 715/794, 715/800US Class Current715/788CPC Class CodesG06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of s...
