DONALD B BIXLER
Engineering in Herndon, VA
License number
Massachusetts 28705
Expiration Date
Jun 30, 1984
Type
Sanitary Engineer
Address
Address
Herndon, VA 22090
Professional information
System For Managing Personal And Group Networked Information
US Patent:
6507351, Jan 14, 2003
Filed:
Dec 8, 1999
Appl. No.:
09/457139
Inventors:
Donald Brinton Bixler - Reston VA 20194
International Classification:
G06F 300
US Classification:
345810, 345733, 345738, 345740, 345741, 345825, 345867, 709201
Abstract:
An information management system and method for a computer provides a user-interface tool for automatically acquiring and displaying information acquired from multiple sources such as locally resident utility programs and data files or remote computers and servers accessed via the Internet or through a LAN/WAN communications link. The information management system is provided as a software utility program embodied in a computer-readable medium for loading and executing on a computer system having a display device. Upon execution of the information management system utility program by a host computer, a database is created locally to store information source location data and various display criteria. In an initial mode of operation, a settings menu is provided via a display device for selecting the information sources for acquiring data, inputting various properties concerning the selected information sources and selecting desired display characteristics. Subsequently, the system operates in a âscreen saverâ mode wherein selected information contained in the database or acquired from the selected sources is sequentially displayed in a bit-mapped graphics window after the computer has been idle for a predetermined period.