ATTRIBUTE PRESENTER OF OBJECT ATTRIBUTES AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING OBJECT ATTRIBUTES USING THE ATTRIBUTE PRESENTER

• US 20090138499A1
• Filed: 11/28/2007
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Song, Nicholls, Peter Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 8,140,501 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/289 Object oriented databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/956 Hierarchical

Abstract

An attribute presenter of object attributes from at least one object includes an attribute controller for determining which attributes to select; an attribute collector for collecting and normalizing the determined attributes from the at least one object; an attribute organizer for organizing the collected and normalized attributes for display; and an attribute viewer for displaying the organized object attributes. A method for presenting object attributes using an attribute presenter includes the steps of determining which object attributes to select using an attribute controller; collecting and normalizing the determined object attributes from at least one object using an attribute collector; organizing the collected and normalized object attributes for display by an attribute organizer; and displaying the organized object attributes by an attribute viewer.

Claims

1. An attribute presenter of object attributes from at least one object, comprising:

an attribute controller for determining which attributes to select;

an attribute collector for collecting and normalizing determined attributes from the at least one object;

an attribute organizer for organizing the collected and normalized attributes for display; and

an attribute viewer for displaying the organized object attributes.

2. The attribute presenter of claim 1, wherein the attribute collector includes at least one interpreter for collecting attributes from the same object or different objects.

3. The attribute presenter of claim 1, wherein the collected and normalized attributes are put in an attribute pool.

4. The attribute presenter of claim 1, wherein the attribute controller and the attribute organizer are based on an XML file.

5. The attribute presenter of claim 1, wherein the attribute presenter can create multiple instances of views to present different attribute sets of the same object or the attributes of different objects.

6. The attribute presenter of claim 1, wherein the attribute viewer displays information including attribute name, value and other information in a tree, a table, a group of icons, or other form.

7. A method for presenting object attributes using an attribute presenter, comprising:

determining which object attributes to select using an attribute controller;

collecting and normalizing the determined object attributes from at least one object using an attribute collector;

organizing the collected and normalized object attributes for display by an attribute organizer; and

displaying the organized object attributes by an attribute viewer.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the attribute collector includes at least one interpreter for collecting attributes from the same object or different objects.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the attribute controller is based on an XML file.

10. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

putting the collected and normalized object attributes in an attribute pool.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

notifying the attribute organizer by the attribute collector when the object attributes are ready.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the attribute organizer, upon being notified that the object attributes are ready, builds the object attributes into a presentable structure and passes the structure to the attribute viewer for displaying.

13. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

creating multiple instances of views to present different attribute sets of the same object or the attributes of different objects.

14. The method according to claim 7, wherein the attribute viewer displays information including attribute name, value and other information in a tree, a table, or other form.

15. A computer-readable storage medium on which computer-executable codes are stored, wherein the computer-executable codes, when loaded, cause the computer to perform:

determining which object attributes to select using an attribute controller;

collecting and normalizing the determined object attributes from at least one object using an attribute collector;

organizing the collected and normalized object attributes for display by an attribute organizer; and

displaying the organized object attributes by an attribute viewer.

16. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform:

putting the collected and normalized object attributes in an attribute pool by the attribute collector.

17. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform:

notifying the attribute organizer when the object attributes are ready by the attribute collector.

18. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 17, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform:

upon being notified that the object attributes are ready, building, by the attribute organizer, the object attributes into a presentable structure and passing the structure to the attribute viewer for displaying.

19. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform:

creating multiple instances of views to present different attribute sets of the same object or the attributes of different objects.

20. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the program further causes the computer to perform:

displaying information including attribute name, value and other information in a tree, a table, or other form by the attribute viewer.