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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Josef Scherpa, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Andrew L. Schirmer, Andover, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 17/30126 (2013.01); G06F 17/30994 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hierarchical tree file browsers and provide a method, system and computer program product for selectably flattening a hierarchical tree object structure in a hierarchical tree object browser. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of flattening an object hierarchy in an object browser can be provided. The method can include selecting a node in an object hierarchy in an object browser and, responsive to selecting the node, displaying content for the selected node and content for at least one node below the selected node in the object browser.


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