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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
J. Craig Hally, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kenneth A. Koch, North Bend, WA (US);
Mark R. Ligameri, Everett, WA (US);
Jason F. Moore, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shaun A. Kaasten, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard M. Banks, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
David G. DE Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);
Zeke B. Odins-lucas, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrice L. Miner, Kirkland, WA (US);
J. Craig Hally, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kenneth A. Koch, North Bend, WA (US);
Mark R. Ligameri, Everett, WA (US);
Jason F. Moore, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shaun A. Kaasten, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard M. Banks, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
David G. De Vorchik, Seattle, WA (US);
Zeke B. Odins-Lucas, Seattle, WA (US);
Patrice L. Miner, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A virtual address bar user interface control is presented. The virtual address bar includes a plurality of interactive segments, each segment corresponding to a predetermined filter for selecting content in a computer file system. Collectively, the interactive segments represent a virtual address for selecting content. Selecting an interactive segment in the virtual address bar causes those segments subsequent to the selected segment to be removed from the virtual address bar. A user may select a peer filter for a segment to replace that segment's current filter and removes those segments subsequent to the updated segment. The virtual address bar can be selectively configured to operate as a conventional address bar, and reconfigured to operate as a virtual address bar. Additional filter segments are added to the end of the existing filter segments. Those existing filter segments that conflict with the added segment are removed from the virtual address bar.