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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2010
Applicant:
Charles M. Gobeil, Ottawa, CA;
Inventor:
Charles M. Gobeil, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Hybrid menus can be generated and displayed, where the hybrid menus comprising primary and sub-menus having different geometries. Depending upon the context in which a user provides selection input for menu display, the context-appropriate model elements are retrieved from a tree model. A layout generation component transforms the tree model into a hybrid menu for display to the user.