Visualizing navigable object hierarchy

US7814428B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Sandra Bicker · Heidelberg, DE
• Iris Nieder · Walldorf, DE
• Annett Hardt · Mannheim, DE
• Ingo Deck · Mannheim, DE
• Erik Oster · Heidelberg, DE
• Till Brinkmann · Mannheim, DE
• Boris Bierbaum · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Martin Dauer · Alsting, FR
• Theo Held · Wiesloch, DE
• Martin Schrepp · Hockenheim, DE
• Kerstin Dittmar · Rheinstetten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 12, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 15, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/06
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A graphical user interface (GUI) includes a details area containing first detail information for a first object instance. The first object instance is part of a hierarchy that includes several object instances of more than one object. The first detail information is presented using at least one GUI component associated with the first object instance. Included in the details area is a hierarchy GUI component that presents at least a portion of the hierarchy including the first object instance, and providing for user selection of any of the several object instances in the hierarchy. The details area is updated to instead contain second detail information that is for a second object instance selected using the hierarchy GUI component and that is presented using at least one GUI component associated with the second object instance. The details area can include GUI components associated with any of the several object instances.