Patent ID: 6324536
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for providing a user interface interaction for equality and inequality searching of a database comprising a plurality of product records indexed by at least one product feature at a computer having a computer display comprising the steps of:dynamically generating a display file comprising at least one product feature, a product feature value variable for each of said at least one product feature, and an image file comprising graphical representations of each of a plurality of search parameters, said graphical representations comprising representations of each of the equality and inequality symbols comprising equal to, not equal to, greater than, less than, greater than or equal to, and less than or equal to for use by a user to select one of said graphical representations for each of said at least one product feature to identify the range of product feature value variables to be searched; anddisplaying the contents of said display file at said computer display as a displayed image.