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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1997
Brian James Tarbox, Littleton, MA (US);
Bethany Rose Scaer, Nashua, NH (US);
Jeffrey Phillip Snover, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer managed communication network with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals and including a plurality of network objects, each respectfully associated with one of a plurality of linked network nodes. The network includes means such as databases for storing data representing attributes of network objects. There is graphically displayed on at least one of said display terminals, at least a portion of said linked network nodes and associated objects. In addition, there is a user interactive implementation for activating a transient display of a selected attribute of one of said displayed objects proximate to said object in combination with user interactive means for selecting the attribute to be transiently displayed. Preferably, the attribute is dynamically selected by user interactive means for activating the display of an attribute menu during the time of said transient display so that another attribute may be selected during said time.