Floating Hierarchical Menu of Navigation History
OwnerFred Faching Changinventor
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Abstract
A method for enabling access to a history of previously accessed data items includes (a) providing a floating hierarchical menu of navigation history which may alternatively be located at any portion of a main window including a hierarchical tree displaying a plurality of previously accessed data items in response to a first user input, and (b) providing for a second user input to select the hierarchical level of nodes displayed, wherein each such data item is displayed as a node of the tree and each such node may be selected to retrieve the previously accessed data item.
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A computer-implemented method for enabling access to a history of previously accessed data items, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) in response to receiving a first input by a user via an interface device, displaying a hierarchical menu of navigation history within a main window of a graphical user interface accessed by the user, wherein the hierarchical menu floats on the main window to at least partially obstruct the main window or contents thereof, wherein the hierarchical menu displays a listing corresponding to a plurality of previously accessed data items by the user, wherein the listing is visually arranged as a node structure comprising at least one parent node representative of an identifier common to one or more child nodes depending therefrom, wherein the one or more child nodes respectively correspond to the previously accessed data items;
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- (b) in response to receiving a second input from the user corresponding to a selection of one of the child nodes, retrieving the corresponding previously accessed data item.
A computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computer, causes the processor to:
- (a) in response to receiving a first input by a user via an interface device, displaying a hierarchical menu of navigation history within a main window of a graphical user interface accessed by the user, wherein the hierarchical menu floats on the main window to at least partially obstruct the main window or contents thereof, wherein the hierarchical menu displays a listing corresponding to a plurality of previously accessed data items by the user, wherein the listing is visually arranged as a node structure comprising at least one parent node representative of an identifier common to one or more child nodes depending therefrom, wherein the one or more child nodes respectively correspond to the previously accessed data items;
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- (b) in response to receiving a second input from the user corresponding to a selection of one of the child nodes, retrieving the corresponding previously accessed data item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.