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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1996
Roger Webster, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicholas Lerissa, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deborah Magid, Burlingame, CA (US);
Bayles Holt, San Jose, CA (US);
Nick Durrant, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julie Knaggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick Young, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Deanna McCusker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus summarizes information in an easy and user-friendly format in a database that stores topics and responses to those topics. To that end, a graphical user interface is disclosed having a calendar view and an adjacent report view. The calendar view is a two-dimensional grid having a timeline displayed along one dimension, an index listing one or more topics along the other dimension, and indicia displaying the number of responses to each of the listed topics on the each day, week, month, or year designated in the timeline. Selection of the one or more topics displays the title, author, and date of posting of each response to the selected topic in the report view. Selection of the title of one of the responses in the report view, or the indicia in the calendar view, displays the content of the response.
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