Patent ID: 6356910
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A component of a menu authoring system based on an open hierarchical data structure consisting of,displaying a configuration user interface employed by a network technician to create a self service input menu for a content provider, fetching a set of configuration selections made by said network technician, transforming said set of configuration selections made by said network technician into a set of menu data, generating said self-service input menu based on said set of menu data, displaying said self-service input menu to enable said content provider to specify a set of menu input, fetching a set of menu input made by said content provider on said self-service input menu, linking a node to said open hierarchical data structure based on said set of menu input made by said content provider, displaying a list menu in a content menu that links to an information object based on said set of menu input made by said content provider.