International Business Machines Corporation

Pixar

Softek Storage Solutions Corporation

John Dunning

Robert Gagnon

Guy Letourneau

Heidi M Schoolcraft

Nicholas Tabellion

Michael Kay

Steven Calde

Martin Pare

James Thomson

Murat N Konar

Items in a hierarchy may be displayed in an outline view, where each item at a hierarchy level is presented in a separate line, or as condensed hierarchy lines. A condensed hierarchy line displays two or more related items in a single line. Condensed hierarchy lines present the context of items in a hierarchy in reduced display area as compared with outline views. Users may add or remove items from condensed hierarchy lines using any type of input. Each portion of a condensed hierarchy line represents a different item at a different level of the hierarchy. Items in the condensed hierarchy line may include active user interface elements. Users or applications may define multiple condensed hierarchy lines as needed from arbitrary groups of items in adjacent hierarchy levels. Multiple condensed hierarchy lines can be used to show context for sibling relationships between items.

Condensing hierarchies in user interfaces

A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a storage object and to communicate the storage management information to the data collector. The storage management system includes a user interface configured to display the storage management information for the storage objects.

Method and system for intelligent storage management

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Belmont, CA, United States of America

John Dunning