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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2007
Applicants:
Jin LI, Toronto, CA;
David K. Modjeska, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Jin Li, Toronto, CA;
David K. Modjeska, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system, method, program product and service for navigating and displaying hierarchically structured data. A system is provided that includes: a graphical data display system for displaying a structured diagram having a plurality of nodes; a navigation system for allowing a user to launch a viewport at a selected node within the structured diagram to view subnodes of the selected node; and a context maintenance system that maintains a visual context between each of the plurality of nodes and subnodes within the structured diagram.