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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2002
Sherrill J. Packebush, Austin, TX (US);
Marie Y. Hwang, Austin, TX (US);
Brian M. Mcdonald, Austin, TX (US);
Marian Steinbach, Köln, DE;
Sherrill J. Packebush, Austin, TX (US);
Marie Y. Hwang, Austin, TX (US);
Brian M. McDonald, Austin, TX (US);
Marian Steinbach, Köln, DE;
Trilogy Development Group, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing an interface that allows navigation and display of a directed graph are provided. The interface provides visualization of an underlying graph structure comprising a plurality of hierarchies with shared common nodes, wherein the hierarchies do not necessarily share the exhaustive child-tree of the common node. The method provides for the interface to display a focus node, parent nodes (if any) of the focus node, and in-context children (if any) of the focus node. In a preferred embodiment, the displays of focus, parent, and in-context child nodes are textual displays rather than graphical node-link displays.