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Multi-repository display system using separate presentation, adaption and access layers

  • US 7,669,145 B2
  • Filed: 09/20/2002
  • Issued: 02/23/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing users with access to different types of software objects contained in multiple heterogeneous repositories, comprising:

  • a display system that displays the different types of software objects from different respective repositories in a hierarchical arrangement, wherein an adaptation layer provides object-based information for object selection from the respective one of the different repositories;

    a user interface device via which a user can select more than one of the displayed software objects at the same time, with at least one of the selected software objects being a first type of object from a first repository, and another of the selected objects being a second type of object from a second repository different from said first repository; and

    a unit that interprets a command directed to the selected objects according to the type of each selected object, respectively, and applies the interpreted versions of the command to the corresponding selected objects.

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