Selectors for data visualization
CA 2115237 C · Owner: American Telephone And Telegraph Company · Inventors: Eick, Stephen Gregory
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Data selectors for selecting values which affect display of data. The data selector represents a set of values, and selection is done by interactively "painting" a portion of the data selector. The values which correspond to the painted portion are activated. Species of the data selectors include discrete data selectors continuous, data selectors, and multidimensional data selectors. An exemplary discrete data selector is employed in apparatus for displaying information about a very large number of entities. The apparatus includes very small entity representations representing entities such as lines of text contained in columns representing a context such as the files which contain the …
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- Filed February 8, 1994 and granted March 30, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 8, 2014.
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