Patent ID: 9606700
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computing device for selecting hierarchically arranged items, the computing device including a display, a processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executing on the processor provide a user interface consisting of three item selection columns for respectively navigating to a level within a hierarchy, selecting items within the level, and accumulating items selected using the first two columns, the user interface comprising: a first column of the three item selection columns, the first column displaying available levels within the hierarchy in tabular form, and the first column configured to interactively receive a user selection of a level of the hierarchy, thereby providing a selected level including one or more members, and the first column configured to display navigational information for the hierarchy including a listing of available levels within the hierarchy including the selected level, without displaying items within any of the available levels; a second column of the item selection columns positioned right of the first column and configured to interactively receive the user selection of the selected level and to responsively display the selected level, and when the selected level includes a number of items, to display the number of items and interactively receive a user selection of one or more of the items, thereby providing at least one selected item; a third column of the item selection columns positioned right of the second column configured to interactively display the at least one selected item and providing a user control to remove the at least one selected item from the third column, wherein the third column retains selected items added from the second column over a number of user interactions; and a row extending above one or more of the first, second, and third columns, the row including a number of controls to select a hierarchy to populate the first column.