Patent ID: 7334189
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A displaying method in an information processing apparatus, comprising the steps of: displaying tasks or objects to be processed as a tree which is expandable and reducible and has a multi-hierarchy; monitoring a state of a leaf included in said tree; when a change occurs in said state of said leaf, changing a node that includes said leaf into a state of node showing said change; determining whether a higher order node of said node whose state has been changed to said corresponding state of node, has been expanded; if said higher order node has not been expanded, changing a higher order node of said node whose state has been changed to said corresponding state of node, into said corresponding state of node and also determining whether an even higher order node has been expanded or not; and when said even higher node has been expanded, changing a display of an object node that has been last changed into the corresponding state, into the corresponding state of node, wherein a state of a leaf or node of said tree that is not displayed in said tree, is displayed on a node which is displayed at a lowest hierarchy in said tree and which includes said leaf or node.