Patent · US Expired

Orthogonal browsing in object hierarchies

US6816175B1 · kind B1 · utility

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13Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Birgit Hamp · Stuttgart, DE
Adrian Mueller · Eppelheim, DE
Frank Neumann · Bellevue, US
Annette Opalka · Stuttgart, DE
Roland Seiffert · Herrenberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 15, 1999
Grant date	Nov 9, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 15, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/90344
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to means and a method executable by a computer system for navigation within a tree structure with leaf nodes representing arbitrary types of objects, i.e. of related data treated as a unit.According to the current teaching a travel point representation step is suggested, wherein after selection of at least one non-leaf node as travel point only the path and non-leaf nodes in said tree structure from said travel point to the root of said tree structure is represented in a tree view area. Moreover the complete sub-tree of said travel point is represented in said tree view area. In addition or alternatively after selection of said travel point, a travel box is represented for said travel point, said travel box representing object identifications of all objects of all leaf nodes in said sub tree of said travel point.

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