Patent ID: 8595651
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for a single page multi-tier catalog browser, the method comprising: presenting a single interface page in an original view that comprises a plurality of different selectable 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: 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; in response to the user selecting the at least one thumbnail image, redrawing the third view of the single interface web page into a fourth view enlarging the selected at least one thumbnail image into an expanded thumbnail window within the single interface web page, wherein the expanded thumbnail window comprises an additional filtering option that is selectable by the user; and in response to the user selecting the additional filtering option, redrawing the fourth view of the single interface web page into a fifth view expanding the expanded thumbnail window into a detail window that includes data returned from a search of the catalog records that is associated with the additional filtering option and the displayed primary filter value and the displayed secondary filter value that are each aligned in the displayed matrix with the selected icon; and 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 first view, the second view, the third view, the fourth view and the fifth view, and in response to an input by the user closing any of the sub-window, the expanded thumbnail window and the detail window, without navigating away from the single interface web page to a different window or a different web page.