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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1996
Sharon Renee Consentino, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Steffen Michael Fohn, Poughquag, NY (US);
Arthur Reginald Greef, Valhalla, NY (US);
Gregory Christopher Hansen, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The objective of the instant invention is to define a computer user interface display system that presents hierarchical data in an enhanced tree presentation control that blends the ease-of-use character of the familiar 'tree presentation control' with a technique for navigating more complex lattice data structures, while at the same time providing more node information by displaying configured lattice-node labels along with the node's name. Thus a primary objective of this invention is to facilitate building, maintaining and using a multiple inheritance taxonomy such as a product catalog data base by means of a multi-navigation path browsing system, which is made possible through the capability of this system's multiple inheritance capability; with indicators in the tree view to indicate ancestors such as immediate parents and further removed ancestors.