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First Claim
1. A storage medium, encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a machine, result in the machine performing operations comprising:
- representing a plurality of data items as a plurality of respective nodes in at least one tree;
displaying the at least one tree with an access time of the plurality of data items on an axis; and
compressing the plurality of nodes, wherein compressing the plurality of nodes is based on a number of delimiters in addresses associated with the plurality of data items.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment represent previously-accessed data items as nodes in a tree or trees and display the tree or trees with the access time on an axis. The root node of a tree represents a data item accessed via an address entered by a user while a child node of the tree represents a data item selected from a parent node of the child node. In an embodiment, data items that were displayed in the same window as their parents have different connectors between their associated nodes than do data items that were displayed in different windows from their parents.
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17 Claims
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1. A storage medium, encoded with instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a machine, result in the machine performing operations comprising:
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representing a plurality of data items as a plurality of respective nodes in at least one tree; displaying the at least one tree with an access time of the plurality of data items on an axis; and compressing the plurality of nodes, wherein compressing the plurality of nodes is based on a number of delimiters in addresses associated with the plurality of data items. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. In a graphical user interface, a method for displaying a history of data items navigated, the method comprising:
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maintaining data representing a history of data items navigated; displaying the data graphically as a navigation path positioned relative to a timeline, the navigation path arranged as a tree; and compressing the data items, wherein compressing the data items is based on a number of delimiters in addresses associated with the data items. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An article comprising a storage medium having associated instructions, wherein the instructions, when performed by a machine, result in the machine performing operations comprising:
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generating a plurality of nodes in a tree along a timeline, wherein each node represents a data item and each node is located along the timeline according to a time the respective data item of the node is accessed; and compressing the data items, wherein compressing the data items is based on a number of delimiters in addresses associated with data items. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
a graphical display and a user interface to display activity data in a web browser, the apparatus comprising; a controller operable to display at least one display element on a display including displaying; one or more nodes each representing a web page, the one or more nodes being compressible based on a number of delimiters in addresses associated with the one or more nodes; one or more trees containing the one or more nodes; and a timeline, wherein the nodes are positioned in relation to a time on the timeline that a data item of a node is accessed. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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