| US 7,519,923 B2 | ||
| Method for generating a tree view of elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) | ||
| Trenten Peterson, Morgan Hill, Calif. (US); Erik Bruce Underkofler, Austin, Tex. (US); and Ningning Wang, Round Rock, Tex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 20, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/970,525. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0085765 A1, Apr. 20, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—854 [715/853] | 11 Claims |
| 1. A method, comprising:
processing hierarchical information including information on elements at different hierarchical levels;
generating a tree view in response to processing the hierarchical information enabled to be displayed in a graphical user
interface (GUI) including graphical indicators representing elements at different hierarchical levels;
generating in the tree view for a plurality of hierarchical levels:
graphical indicators for a subset of the elements at the hierarchical level; and
a graphical paging control comprising a plurality of graphical subset indicators representing subsets of elements for the
hierarchical level, wherein each of the subsets groups objects according to an attribute of the objects to form a range of
the objects grouping objects according to the attribute, wherein at least one of the subsets represented by the graphical
subset indicators comprises a range of the objects non-consecutive with respect to a range of a subset of objects displayed
in the tree view for the hierarchical level, wherein selection of one of the graphical subset indicators selects the subset
of elements represented by the selected graphical subset indicator at the hierarchical level;
generating in the tree view graphical indicators representing elements in a selected subset of elements within the hierarchical
levels generated in the tree view in response to selection of the graphical subset indicator representing the selected subset
through the graphical paging control; and
concurrently displaying in the tree view in one tree view page graphical indicators for elements in selected subsets of at
least two hierarchical levels and the graphical paging controls for the at least two hierarchical levels.
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