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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2003
Dennis W Minium, Sammamish, WA (US);
Matt Curland, Redmond, WA (US);
Dennis W Minium, Sammamish, WA (US);
Matt Curland, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A scalable graphical user interface that may be used to map two or more schemas is provided. Elements of a dominant schema are displayed in a first column. Elements of a subordinate schema are displayed in a second column. A user may drag elements of the subordinate schema to a third mapping column and position those elements next to mapped dominant schema elements. A user can quickly and conveniently determine a relationship between mapped elements by selecting an element from the dominant schema and identifying one or more elements in the mapping column that are located next to that element.