Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: ““Description of the Related Art“Operating systems have changed little over the past few decades. Early operatin g systems werecommand driven, where a user specified a particular file location to access data. These operating systemsmorphed into the icon-based interfaces used today. Icon-based operating systems display graphicalrepresentations, or i cons, of files or data. Icons are associated with a particular file location, su ch thatinteraction with an icon by a user results in the corresponding file loc ation being accessed. Accordingly,historical operating systems have been struct ured around using the file’s location within the memory toaccess data, which li mits the flexibility of using alternative storage structures.
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