User interface for presenting object representations

US7647558B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Sultan Ucar · Wiesloch, DE
• Ingo Deck · Mannheim, DE
• Carmen Oestringer · Mannheim, DE
• Barbara Jochum · Östringen, DE
• Volker Mueller · Karlsruhe, DE
• Bernhard Drittler · Walldorf, DE
• Roman Hayer · Riegelsberg, DE
• Markus Fritz · Stuttgart, DE
• Martin Dauer · Alsting, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2005
• Grant date: Jan 12, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 17, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/451
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting representations of selected objects in a computer system. The GUI presents an object selected from a collection of objects using a selected visual representation selected from at least first and second visual representations to be initiated using different initiation techniques. A first input control causes the selected object to be presented using another visual representation instead of the selected visual representation. A second input control causes another object to be presented instead of the selected object using any visual configuration that is currently used in presenting the selected object. The first and second input controls may be located in an object header area that remains essentially unchanged when changing between the at least first and second visual representations.