Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-09-03
1999-04-20
Feild, Joseph H.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
345357, G06F 1700
Patent
active
058954740
ABSTRACT:
An interactive, tree structured, graphical visualization aid enables a user to better understand and interpret underlying structures in collections of digitally stored data elements, such as documents, programs and other data files. The visualization aid responds to user input, which directs the aid to operate in one of at least two modes. In a first mode, the visualization aid displays a graphical tree structure that includes a selected node and all branches of the selected node, including all subordinate nodes and data elements. In this first mode of operation, all data elements or documents branching either directly from the selected node or directly from subordinate nodes are displayed in the tree structure as branching directly from their respective nodes. In a second mode of operation, the visualization aid displays a graphical tree structure that includes a single group of all data elements or documents that branch either directly from the selected node or directly from subordinate nodes, but the selected node and its subordinate nodes are not displayed.
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Maarek Yoelle Smadja
Vortman Pnina
Wecker Alan Jay
Feild Joseph H.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kindred Alford W.
McKinley Martin J.
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