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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
May. 29, 1998
Jonas Almgren, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gregory Vincent Walsh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Eliot Leonard Wegbreit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Epiphany, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of defining in a computer system a subset of entries in a database is described. The subset is defined by a query. The method includes displaying an interface having a number of criteria description locations. The criteria description locations being positioned in rows where each row has one or more columns. The method also includes creating a criteria description in the interface. The criteria description corresponds to criteria, where the criteria define a corresponding subset of the database. Importantly, the relative location of the criteria description in the user interface determines how the criteria contribute to the selectivity of the query.