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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2011
Donald Brinkman, Seattle, WA (US);
Donald Brinkman, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A navigation mechanism for hierarchical data uses a climb/dive and rotate inputs to traverse a hierarchical dataset. The hierarchical dataset may be arranged in a filial-heir arrangement for easy traversal. The navigation mechanism may be used with several different ways of displaying the data, some of which may display both overall context and detailed view of the data. One such example may have a context section and a detail section, where the context section may present the overall context of a focus node in relation to the overall dataset and the detail section may display other nodes that are at the same or lower level than the focus node.