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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2006
Mu Chai, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric A. Herrmann, Snohomish, WA (US);
Mu Chai, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric A. Herrmann, Snohomish, WA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for generating selection representations for items in a tree structure and applying selection representations to logical groupings. An exemplary method includes retrieving a first tree structure that reflects a hierarchy of data from at least one of memory or storage, identifying a first grouping of items in the first tree structure, identifying a remainder of items in the first tree structure, displaying the first grouping and the remainder of items in the first tree structure on the display, receiving positive selections or unselections of at least one of the first grouping of items or the remainder of items for including or excluding in performing a predetermined function on the positively selected or unselected items, generating a selection representation for the first grouping of items and the remainder of items based on the user input, and merging the selection representation for the first grouping of items and the remainder of items to generate a final selection representation.