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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2008
Stephen M. Danton, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuri Rychikhin, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Roberts, Bothell, WA (US);
Michael C. Murray, Seattle, WA (US);
Florian Voss, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen M. Danton, Seattle, WA (US);
Yuri Rychikhin, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott Roberts, Bothell, WA (US);
Michael C. Murray, Seattle, WA (US);
Florian Voss, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for hierarchically presenting tabular data. Embodiments of the invention utilize out-denting and/or color coding to organize and present tabular data to a user so that comparisons across multiple levels of data are possible while maintaining hierarchical organization of a model. That is, the columnar structure of tables can be maintained to allow rich cross-column comparison within various levels of nesting. Further, scaling is significantly increased since nesting has a reduced (and potentially no) impact on column alignment.