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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:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2010
Puravkumar B. Saraiya, Redmond, WA (US);
Catherine Elizabeth Dumas, Bothell, WA (US);
Stephen M. Danton, Seattle, WA (US);
Balasubramanian Shyamsundar, Redmond, WA (US);
Pravin R. Indurkar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Puravkumar B. Saraiya, Redmond, WA (US);
Catherine Elizabeth Dumas, Bothell, WA (US);
Stephen M. Danton, Seattle, WA (US);
Balasubramanian Shyamsundar, Redmond, WA (US);
Pravin R. Indurkar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A viewer may be used to navigate through diagrammatic views of hierarchically structured documents. Expansion and collapse controls may be used to show or hide details regarding a particular node in the hierarchy. Furthermore breadcrumb navigation may be employed to show and hide details regarding the ancestral chain for a particular node in the hierarchy.