SELECTION AND DESELECTION OF OBJECTS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF A HIERARCHY

Patent №

US 7,694,239

Granted

2010-04-06

Filed 2006

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11338197

Provided are techniques for viewing objects. A hierarchical structure is displayed, wherein the hierarchical structure includes two or more levels, and wherein each of the levels includes one or more objects. A control is provided to enable selection of one or more objects at each of the levels of the hierarchical structure. Selection of at least one object at each of two or more of the levels of the hierarchical structure is received. In response to receiving the selection, the hierarchical structure is displayed with the at least one object at each of the two or more of the levels shown as selected along with a list of the selected objects.

AI classification

AI hardware0.72
Natural language0.12
Machine learning0.10
Planning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 177900567

Assignors

SWAIN, ALEX, YAKLIN, MICHAEL W., YOUSSEF, YASMIN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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