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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
May. 29, 1998
Evelyn L. Williams, Longmont, CO (US);
Lawrence M. Besaw, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Robert Raymond, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Mark S. Anspach, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jayson M. Webb, Boulder, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Contextual information that is presented to the user of a windows-based computer environment through the user interface of a single open window of the environment may be readily filtered and changed by appropriate manipulation by the user of a context control feature of the user interface. Manipulation of the context control feature allows the user to look at a given set of objects or tasks from different views or perspectives. It also provides the user with access to a different set of objects, thereby allowing the user to look at a different set of objects or tasks from the same view or perspective as an earlier set of objects or tasks.