Method and system for indicating boundaries of connected data subsets
First Claim
1. A method in a data processing system, which includes data having a plurality of data subsets, said method comprising:
- displaying a display window, wherein said data is displayed within said display window;
selecting a data subset within said plurality of data subsets comprising said data; and
displaying a marker in association with said display window in response to selection of a member of said data subset, said marker having two terminuses, an upper terminus and a lower terminus, wherein a location of said upper terminus indicates an upper boundary of said data subset and a location of said lower terminus indicates a lower boundary of said data subset and wherein an absence of one of said two terminuses intuitively indicates, to a user, a presence of additional undisplayed data within said data subset.
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Abstract
A method and system for indicating boundaries of data subsets that are displayed in a display window in a data processing system. Data having data subsets are displayed within a display window with a selected data subset being visible within the window. The selected data subset has an upper and lower boundary. A marker is displayed in association with the display window in response to a selected data subset within the plurality of data subsets being displayed within the display window. The marker has two terminuses, an upper terminus and a lower terminus. The location of the upper terminus indicates an upper boundary of the selected data subset and the location of the lower terminus indicates the lower boundary of the selected data subset. An absence of one of the two terminuses intuitively indicates, to a user, a presence of additional undisplayed data within the selected data set that is not displayed within the display window. An absence of the upper terminus indicates that the upper boundary of the selected data subset is not visible, and an absence of the lower terminus indicates that the lower boundary of the selected data subset is not visible. The slope of the sides of the marker provide an indication of how far away the absent terminus is from the visible portion of the marker.
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18 Claims
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1. A method in a data processing system, which includes data having a plurality of data subsets, said method comprising:
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displaying a display window, wherein said data is displayed within said display window; selecting a data subset within said plurality of data subsets comprising said data; and displaying a marker in association with said display window in response to selection of a member of said data subset, said marker having two terminuses, an upper terminus and a lower terminus, wherein a location of said upper terminus indicates an upper boundary of said data subset and a location of said lower terminus indicates a lower boundary of said data subset and wherein an absence of one of said two terminuses intuitively indicates, to a user, a presence of additional undisplayed data within said data subset. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A data processing system, which includes data having a plurality of data subsets, said data processing system comprising:
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first display means for displaying a display window, wherein said data is displayed within said display window; selection means for selecting a data subset within said plurality of data subsets comprising said data; and second display means for displaying a marker in association with said display window in response to selection of said data subset, said marker having two terminuses, an upper terminus and a lower terminus, wherein a location of said upper terminus indicates an upper boundary of said data subset and a location of said lower terminus indicates a lower boundary of said data subset and wherein an absence of one of said two terminuses intuitively indicates, to a user, a presence of additional undisplayed data within said data subset. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. Computer code stored in a storage device readable by a data processing system comprising:
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first subprocesses for displaying a display window, wherein said data is displayed within said display window; second subprocesses for selecting a data subset within the said plurality of data subsets comprising said data; and third subprocesses for displaying a marker in association with said display window in response to selection of said data subset, said marker having two terminuses, an upper terminus and a lower terminus, wherein a location of said upper terminus indicates an upper boundary of said data subset and a location of said lower terminus indicates a lower boundary of said data subset and wherein an absence of one of said two terminuses intuitively indicates, to a user, a presence of additional undisplayed data within said data subset, wherein said subprocesses are activated when said storage device is connected to and accessed by said data processing system. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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