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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2003
Timothy P. Mckee, Seattle, WA (US);
David George DE Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);
David Joel Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
Chris J. Guzak, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jason Fergus Moore, Redmond, WA (US);
Kerem B. Karatal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Giampiero Sierra, Seattle, WA (US);
Leonard J. Peterson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Timothy P. McKee, Seattle, WA (US);
David George De Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);
David Joel Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
Chris J. Guzak, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jason Fergus Moore, Redmond, WA (US);
Kerem B. Karatal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Giampiero Sierra, Seattle, WA (US);
Leonard J. Peterson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for presenting a plurality of items to a user with a contextual display. A computer system is provided which includes a data store. At least a portion of the items in the data store include one or more field entries. An explorer interacts with the data store, selects items having one or more desired field entries, and displays the selected items according to an explorer display schema. An application may select the items from the data store and may interact with a shell browser to present the selected items. A method for establishing an explorer for presenting items in a data store to a user.