International Business Machines Corporation

Richard Edward Cordes

David Bruce Lection

Anthony Edward Martinez

George E Hall, Jr

Mathew James Brozowski

Susan Maureen Hanson

Matthew David Walnock

Colleen L DeJong

A method includes receiving a user input to cause movement of a display of a screen of a direct manipulation device, wherein the movement is in a direction away from a target item. The method includes receiving a release input to indicate that the user has released the user input at a release point on the display of the screen. The method also includes determining a location of the release point on the display of the screen relative to selectable items. The method includes determining the target item from among the selectable items, wherein the target item is at a distance from the location of the release point. The method also includes displaying a surrogate selectable item at the release point. The method includes performing an action that is the same as an action that would occur in response to a user selection of the target item.

Movement reduction when scrolling for item selection during direct manipulation

Tree navigator graphical user interfaces are provided which execute on user queries for data asynchronously, and which may display information obtained as a result of a query as soon as it is available, even though additional responsive information is not yet available. These tree navigator graphical user interfaces may also be designed to anticipate future queries for data based on past or current queries, and pre-load data into the graphical user interface which is responsive to the anticipated future queries. The tree navigator graphical user interfaces may additionally use &ldquo;placeholder objects&rdquo; and &ldquo;loading icons&rdquo; to notify the user regarding the loading status of the data associated with a particular branch of the tree.

Asynchronous tree navigator graphical user interface and associated methods

An efficient and intuitive means, method and apparatus for displaying and searching information organized in a hierarchical manner. The presented method for displaying and searching information utilizes methods residing at the nodes of the hierarchically organized information.

Subset search tree integrated graphical interface

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Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Richard Edward Cordes