Patent ID: 9335898
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for a single page multi-tier catalog browser, the method comprising: presenting a single interface web page in an original view that comprises a plurality of different selectable displayed filtering criteria buttons that are each associated with different pre-determined filtering criteria relevant to a plurality of records within a catalog; in response to a user selection of a first one of the displayed filtering criteria buttons, redrawing the original view of the single interface web page into a second view that displays a graduated element below the plurality of different selectable filtering criteria buttons that comprises a plurality of different displayed values of a primary filter of the pre-determined filtering criteria that is associated with the selected first filtering criteria button, a matrix below the graduated element of a relationship of each of the displayed primary filter values to each of displayed ones of a plurality of different displayed values of a secondary filter of the pre-determined filtering criteria that is associated with the selected first filtering criteria button, wherein the matrix is populated with a plurality of Yes indicators that are each aligned with respective ones of the displayed primary filter values and the displayed secondary filter values that match within the catalog records, and with a plurality of No indicators that are each aligned with respective ones of the displayed primary filter values and the displayed secondary filter values that do not match within the catalog records, and a slider bar engaging the graduated element that is movable via graphical user interface input by the user into different positions over each of the primary filter values displayed in the graduated element; in response to the user selecting one of the primary filter values displayed within the graduated element by moving the slider bar onto the selected primary filter value, presenting each of the Yes matrix indicators that are aligned with the selected primary filter value and displayed in the matrix in alignment with the slider bar in the second view as selectable icons in the interface web page; in response to the user selecting one of the selectable icons, redrawing the second view of the single interface web page into a third view expanding the selected icon into a sub-window within the interface web page, the sub-window displaying at least one thumbnail image of a data item of the catalog that is associated with the displayed primary filter value and the displayed secondary filter value that are each aligned in the displayed matrix with the selected icon; wherein the user remains on the single interface web page during the presenting of the original view and during each of the redrawings of the original view, the second view and the third view, and in response to an input by the user closing the sub-window, without navigating away from the single interface web page to a different window or a different web page.