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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Lyon King-fook Wong, Issaquah, WA (US);
Stephan Hoefnagels, Seattle, WA (US);
Relja B. Ivanovic, Seattle, WA (US);
David G. DE Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul L. Cutsinger, Redmond, WA (US);
Lyon King-Fook Wong, Issaquah, WA (US);
Stephan Hoefnagels, Seattle, WA (US);
Relja B. Ivanovic, Seattle, WA (US);
David G. De Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul L. Cutsinger, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A property tree user interface permits user assignment of values to metadata properties and user navigation of data, within a system that includes a data storage subsystem in which data items are organized and queried by way of properties. The property tree includes nodes that expose properties of data items. A user may interact with the property tree in order to effect an assignment of a property, in which case the value associated with the property in the data storage subsystem is modified. The property tree may also display nodes that represent folders within a hierarchical file system, nodes that represent properties with inherent hierarchy, and nodes that represent user-defined hierarchical properties, and the property tree may display such nodes in a carousel control.