BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention is directed to a computer controlled
user interactive display for graphically displaying portions of a
communication network such as nodes and objects. The user
selects the object attribute to be transiently displayed and
activates a transient display of the selected attribute proximate
to the object (specification, page 3). As shown in Figures 4 and
5, an attribute is selected by clicking on attribute window 87
which brings down attribute menu 88, from which the user makes a
selection (specification, page 11). Next, the user chooses one
of the objects so that the selected attribute for that object is
displayed in transient display area 89 and proximate to object
icon 80 (id.).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In a computer managed communication network with user
interactive access via a plurality of display terminals and
including a plurality of network objects, each respectively
associated with one of a plurality of linked network nodes,
means for storing data representing attributes of said
network objects,
means for graphically displaying on at least one of
said display terminals, at least a portion of said linked
network nodes and associated objects,
user interactive means for activating for a selected
time period a transient display of a selected attribute of
one of said displayed objects proximate to said object, and
user interactive means for selecting the attribute to
be transiently displayed.
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