Appeal No. 2005-0871
Application 09/248,736
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a method, apparatus and article of
manufacture for creating a customized tree from an original tree.
Claim 1, which claims the method, is illustrative:
1. A method of creating a customized tree in a computer
from an original tree containing objects from a data storage
device connected to the computer, the method comprising:
creating a filter in response to user input, wherein the
filter specifies a selection criteria to select objects to be
contained within a selected object on the customized tree;
saving the filter and the specified selection criteria;
selecting one or more objects on the original tree to be
contained in the customized tree in response to user input by
applying the filter, wherein the one or more objects are located
in disparate places across different branches of the original
tree;
linking the selected objects from the disparate places to
each other in the customized tree in a user-specified manner; and
defining security restrictions for accessing the selected
objects using the customized tree.
THE REFERENCES
Robinson 5,842,218 Nov. 24, 1998
Glasser et al. (Glasser) 5,956,715 Sep. 21, 1999
(filed Sep. 23, 1996)
Cotugno et al. (Cotugno) 6,198,480 Mar. 6, 2001
(filed Jan. 29, 1999)
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