Patent 7596777 was granted and assigned to Siebel Systems on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for providing a translation locking mechanism comprising a locking system to permit locking of translatable properties of an object within a project. The apparatus further comprises a lock tester to determine whether the locking system prevents edits to a particular property; and an editing tool to prohibit alteration of the properties that are affected by translation.