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Dynamic readjustment and interpolation of progress method and system

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#110Program published in 1987 which contains all elements of claim

Applies to Claims 12,13,17,18,9

Submitted by: Tom EvslinLast updated: over 5 years ago

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Summary / Description

Summary / Description	This is an illustration from the manual of Desktop Express written by Solutions, Inc. and published by Dow Jones Software in 1987.

Basic Information

Type of Prior Art	Print Publication

Publication Title *	Documentation for Dow Jones Desktop Express

Author	Solutions, Inc.

ISBN

Page Range	page 2-10

Medium	Product

Publication Date *	January 1, 1987

URL

Notes / To Do

Notes	Program disk is available.

Excerpt

Excerpt

As is obvious from the included illustration, Desktop Express contains a progress indicator for a multistep process (note progress bar for each step and cumulative progress bar). The progress was dynamically updated based on the cumulative progress of all steps as compared to units of work remaining to be done.

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Claims

A computing device, comprising: a processor; and

a memory storing instructions operable with the processor for readjusting and interpolating a progress of an execution of multi-step program by a computing device, the instructions being executed for: computing a cumulative point baseline for each step of the multi-step program based on a completion time baseline for each step of the multi-step program; and

regulating a progress indicator based on the cumulative point baseline and a completion time of each step of the multi-step program as executed by the computing device.

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The Macintosh which Desktop Express ran on is a computing device as described in the claim, the screen shot is of the progress calculation for a multistep program (uploading and downloading a number of email messages), cumulative points are from a table of the number of bytes in each such message, the progress insicator is shown. The bottom indicator is updated cumulatively for all steps.

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The computing device of Claim 9, wherein the computing of the cumulative point baseline for each step of the multi-step program based on the completion time baseline for each step of the multi-step program includes: identifying a first completion time baseline for a first step of the multi-step program;

computing a first completion time points as a product of the first completion time baseline and a baseline point value; and

computing a first cumulative point baseline equal to the first completion time points.

Relevance

to the extent this claim is comprehensible, the baseline for the first step in Desktop Express is the number of characters in the file, points are the "computed" percentage of the total bytes to be transferred which are in the first file.

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The computing device of Claim 12, wherein the computing of the cumulative point baseline for each step of the multi-step program based on the completion time baseline for each step of the multi-step program further includes: identifying a second completion time baseline for a second step of the multi-step program;

computing a second completion time points as a product of the second completion time baseline and the baseline point value; and

computing a second cumulative point baseline as a summation of the first completion time points and the second completion time points.

Relevance

see d11 above

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A method for readjusting and interpolating a progress of an execution of multi-step program by a computing device, the method comprising: computing a cumulative point baseline for each step of the multi-step program based on a completion time baseline for each step of the multi-step program; and

regulating a progress indicator based on the cumulative point baseline and a completion time of each step of the multi-step program as executed by the computing device.

Relevance

see i9 above

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The method of Claim 17, wherein the computing of the cumulative point baseline for each step of the multi-step program based on the completion time baseline for each step of the multi-step program includes: identifying a first completion time baseline for a first step of the multi-step program;

computing a first completion time points as a product of the first completion time baseline and a baseline point value;

computing a first cumulative point baseline equal to the first completion time points.

identifying a second completion time baseline for a second step of the multi-step program;

computing a second completion time points as a product of the second completion time baseline and the baseline point value; and

computing a second cumulative point baseline as a summation of the first completion time points and the second completion time points.

Relevance

not only obvious but the method used by Desktop Express

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