(12) United States Patent ao) Patent No.: us 6,345,318 Bi
Gamon (45) Date of Patent: Feb. 5,2002
(54) SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING A USERMODIFIABLE CONFIRMATION MESSAGE CONFIGURATION RECORD THAT SPECIFYING WITH RESPECT TO A PLURALITY OF OPERATIONS WHETHER TO COMMUNICATE A CONFIRMATION MESSAGE
(75) Inventor: Owen John Gamon, Rochester, MN (US)
(73) Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term ol this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.
Appl. No.: 09/167,788
Filed: Oct. 7, 1998
Int. C I. G06F 13/14
U.S. CI 710/8; 345/347; 345/356
Field of Search 710/8; 345/356,
345/347
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A method and system lor presenting only those confirmation messages that the user would like to see. In the prelerred embodiment, a control program allows the user to specily categories ol operations in a category list, to select which categories receive confirmation messages, and to select which categories ol operations have deleted data sent to a recycle bin. In the prelerred embodiment, a control program intercepts all confirmation messages and determines whether the operation that caused the confirmation message is in a category list. II the operation is in the category list, the control program automatically responds to the message based on the response listed in the category list, so that the user is free from needing to deal with the message. The control program also determines whether to send deleted data to the recycle bin based on an indicator in the category list. Provision is made for the control program to either be an application that intercepts messages that the operating system sends, or for the control program to be part ol the operating system.
37 Claims, 15 Drawing Sheets
