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Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange web-page icons by having the icons be consolidated in schedule-control icons (SCI) containing regions. Regions may be on icons, windows, or other graphical objects. For example, when an icon representing a w

Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange web-page icons by having the icons be consolidated in schedule-control icons (SCI) containing regions. Regions may be on icons, windows, or other graphical objects. For example, when an icon representing a web page is dragged close to a region on an SCI, the subscription update schedule for that web page is changed. The schedule value depends upon to which region on the SCI an icon is dragged.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A schedule-controller icon displayed on a graphical user interface of a computer system, the icon comprising:one or more locations, each location associated with a subscription schedule rate and a first location being one of the locations; anda threshold distance for each of the loc

[ I claim:] [1.] A schedule-controller icon displayed on a graphical user interface of a computer system, the icon comprising:one or more locations, each location associated with a subscription schedule rate and a first location being one of the locations; anda threshold distance for each of the locations, where one or more icons, representing one or more web page links, is placed on the graphical user interface within the threshold distance of the first location causing the subscription for the icon to be assigned an update schedule of the first location.