Method and apparatus for a unified chooser for heterogeneous ent

Details Method and apparatus for a unified chooser for heterogeneous ent Method and apparatus for a unified chooser for heterogeneous ent

1997-08-15

1999-09-14

Amsbury, Wayne

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 1, 707 2, G06F 1700

Patent

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059537205

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that disclose an entity chooser (similar to a file chooser) that uniformly presents heterogeneous entities accessed through different access methods. The invention allows a computer user to select, using a single interface, an entity from a collection of entities representing accessible information. For example, the invention can simultaneously and uniformly present entities located on a filesystem along with entities found on a network to the user for selection.

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