Netscape Communications Corporation

Paige K Parsons

Bryce Alan Glass

A common interface solution to the problem of burgeoning information sets, referred to as inline tree filters, structures the represented data in a hierarchical tree. Inline filters are information-filtration devices that are applied to a traditional interface element, such as a hierarchical tree viewer. The invention provides a technique that enables the user to choose selectively the data that they want to display, while not otherwise altering the behavior and interaction of the tree viewer itself. Inline tree filters are suitable for any graphical user interface that could potentially use a tree viewer.

Inline tree filters

An interaction framework is based on user configurable view links, where a view link is created by dragging an icon from a source view, and dropping it onto a target view. When a user subsequently selects an object in the source view, its contents are expanded in the target view. View links enable such multi-view extensions as link filters, in which functions are provided which can create dynamic linked content.

Link filters

An interaction framework is based on user configurable view links, where a view link is created by dragging an icon from a source view, and dropping it onto a target view. When a user subsequently selects an object in the source view, its contents are expanded in the target view. View links enable such multi-view extensions as dynamic sources and dynamic targets, where a view link establishes a dynamic operation, in which a source and/or target relation is dynamically determined, e.g. by an active view.

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Atherton, CA, United States of America

Paige K Parsons