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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
May. 29, 1998
Evelyn L. Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Lawrence M. Besaw, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Robert Raymond, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Alfred Hermann, Weil der Stadt, DE;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The user interface of a window in a windows-based computer environment, such as an application window (,) or a launcher window (,), has controls that provide a user with an explicit mechanism for changing the user interface approach taken by the user interface in presenting functionality of network and systems management applications to the user via the user interface. The following types of user interface approaches can be obtained in network and systems management applications: an object-based approach, is a task-based approach, an information-based approach, and a tool-based approach. A change in the user interface approach via an approach control mechanism (,) is typically associated with a corresponding change in the items presented to the user and the way in which functionality will be used.