An operating system shell provides a graphical user interface having a windowing environment with a desktop. The shell synthesizes a hypertext page for display as the desktop in the graphical user interface. The hypertext page has an embedded software object which provides graphical icon-oriented and...http://www.google.de/patents/US6061695?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6061695 - Operating system shell having a windowing graphical user interface with a desktop displayed as a hypertext multimedia document