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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2008
Applicants:
Mark E. Molander, Cary, NC (US);
Todd Michael Eischeid, Cary, NC (US);
Kerry A. Ortega, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Inventors:
Mark E. Molander, Cary, NC (US);
Todd Michael Eischeid, Cary, NC (US);
Kerry A. Ortega, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One example of this invention is to provide indicators and quick access controls for the nodes in navigation tree that appear more than once in a hierarchy—where a pure hierarchical navigational tree falls short. Moreover, contextually and inline with the navigation tree, the user could quickly re-orient the tree to group all the repeating nodes together.