Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-02
2003-01-07
Robinson, Greta L. (Department: 2177)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06505209
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
This invention relates to the selection of a first node which may be a file and references to that first node and the display of the first node and its references. This invention relates to address generation such as found on internet domain name servers. This invention relates to the display and navigation of context lists and relationships between contexts. This invention relates to hypergraph viewing and navigation.
FIG. 1
illustrates a prior art computer comprising one or more enclosures
10
, housing a display device
12
, selector device
14
, and communication
16
between selector device and system, keyboard
20
and communication
22
between keyboard and system as well as door
24
for removable media. Enclosure
10
is shown herein with minimal detail by way of illustration. In practice, prior art system enclosures
10
relevant to this invention include but are not limited to television-style cases, desktop computer enclosures, notebook computer enclosures, hand held computer enclosures and rack-mounted computer enclosures. Many of these enclosures
10
incorporate speakers with them, in some instances, being perceived separate from the enclosure
10
. Note that there are a number of systems containing more than one enclosure
10
, as illustrated, such as a number of desktop computers, televisions with set top boxes and often, additional removable media interfaces such as DVD players. Prior art servers are often rack-mounted and in many circumstances, possess minimal display device
12
, selector device
14
and keyboard
20
capabilities. Such minimal display device
12
, selector device
14
and keyboard
20
capabilities may for instance be shared between several servers mounted in one rack.
Relevant prior art display devices
12
are also widely varied in form and specifics of operation. Relevant prior art display devices
12
may present black and white or color images. Relevant prior art display devices
12
may support either a vector or raster format. Relevant prior art display devices
12
may present images in either a 2-D, 3-D or multi-dimensional presentation view or collection of views.
Relevant embodiments of selector device
14
include but are not limited to contemporary television channel selectors, home entertainment center remote controls, computer pointing devices including but not limited to 3-D and 2-D mouse-style pointers, pen tablets, track balls, touch pads, key pads and joysticks. As illustrated in
FIG. 1
, the selector device communicates via physical transport mechanism
16
with an interface housed in enclosure
10
. Relevant physical transport mechanisms
16
include but are not limited to infra-red, micro-wave and other similar wireless transport layers, as well as wires and optical fiber. The mechanism by which communication is carried out based upon the specific physical transport mechanism employed is not relevant to this invention and will not be discussed for that reason.
Keyboards
20
may be attached to various relevant, prior art systems. Keyboards
20
may house touch pads and mouse sticks which in certain cases are the relevant selector device
14
of that system.
FIG. 2
displays a system block diagram of a prior art computer. The units (
12
,
14
,
20
and
54
) on the left side and bottom of this figure all have a major role in the input and output flows processed and are controlled by the second column of units (
46
,
38
,
42
and
58
), respectively. The data transport mechanisms between units (
12
,
14
,
20
and
54
) and units (
46
,
38
,
42
and
58
) are represented by arrows (
52
,
16
,
22
and
56
), respectively. These units interact with each other and an overall control circuit labeled digital controller
50
via arrows representing buses (
48
,
44
,
40
,
60
). Additionally, units
30
and
34
interact with digital controller
50
as represented by arrows
32
and
36
, respectively. Digital controller
50
in turn has RAM and Nonvolatile memory, which it controls and uses to direct the overall operation of relevant prior art systems via buses.
Relevant prior art display devices
12
may present black and white or color images in either a vector or raster format representing images in either a 2-D, 3-D or multi-dimensional presentation view or collection of views. Relevant display data transport
52
includes but is not limited to NTSC, PAL or various HDTV television protocols of either analog or digital formats, as well as digital and analog RGB and various flat panel display interface protocols as are often used with computer displays. Many systems today possess a specialized display interface
46
, which often incorporates one or more temporary frame buffers and MPEG decoding acceleration technology as well as acceleration technology for a variety of graphics operation. The communication mechanism
48
by which these units interact with the rest of an exemplary prior art system include but are not limited to microcomputer busses such as PCI and AGP as well as dedicated communication paths. Display devices
12
comprise traditional display devices and force feedback tactile and auditory display devices.
The selector device
14
, selector device communication mechanism
16
and selector interface
38
have been discussed above. The communication between the selector interface
38
and the rest of the system is denoted by arrow
44
. Embodiments of arrow
44
include but are not limited to addressable interfaces on computer busses including but not limited to ISA, PCI and USB.
Relevant, prior art removable media interface
34
embodiments include but are not limited to optical disk players and electromagnetic disk players of a removable media. These removable media interfaces
34
embodiments further include but are not limited to CD ROM, MPEG and DVD players. Such removable media interface
34
embodiments may further include the ability to write to the storage media as well as play the storage media. Relevant removable media interface
34
embodiments include but are not limited to various SCSI controllers, specialized optical disk controllers, specialized hard disk controllers and RAID disk array controllers. Removable media interface
34
embodiments may further include but are not limited to various continuous play media compression decoders: MPEG decoders and DVD decoders. Relevant prior art communications mechanisms
36
include but are not limited to various SCSI, RAID, ISA and EISA interfaces.
Note that in relevant prior art systems, there may be more than one, potentially distinct, removable media interface
34
with potentially distinct interfaces and communication paths
36
. One removable media interface
34
might support a writeable CD ROM using a SCSI controller as well as a second DVD-ROM player with its own cabling and player interface
34
.
Additionally mass storage
30
with communication coupling to digital controller
50
represented by arrow
32
may possess a similar range of operational characteristics: Mass storage
30
embodiments often possess a file management system afforded by operating systems such as UNIX, LINUX, Microsoft Windows™, MacOS™, among others. Mass storage
30
embodiments include but are not limited various electro-magnetically encoded media as well optically encoded media. Mass storage
30
embodiments include but are not limited read-only, plus write-once and read often and read-write media. Mass storage
30
embodiments include but are not limited to various SCSI controllers, specialized optical disk controllers, specialized hard disk controllers and RAID disk array controllers. Removable media interface
34
embodiments may further include but are not limited to various continuous play media compression decoders: MPEG decoders and DVD decoders. Relevant prior art communications mechanisms
32
include but are not limited to various SCSI, RAID, ISA and EISA interfaces.
Another relevant source of continuous play media content is provided via external environment
54
communicating with external interface
58
via arrow
56
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Buckmaster Janna
Gould Eric Justin
Trisnadi Paulus W.
Wilkens Todd
MONKEYmedia, Inc.
Robinson Greta L.
Silicon Valley IP Group, LLC.
Zilka Kevin J.
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