Patent ID: 6043816
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A user interface of a window in a windows-based computer environment that provides means for preserving and re-accessing different locations within the window, comprising:a scoping pane of the user interface having a plurality of locations that are available to be selected by a user of the user interface, wherein each location of the plurality of locations has a set of content information that on be presented to the user;a content pane of the user interface that presents the set of content information associated with a location of the plurality of locations that is selected in the scoping pane by the user; andone or more navigation tabs in the content pane, with each navigation tab of the one or more navigation tabs associated with a location of the plurality of locations and having a label representative of the associated location within the window;wherein a label of an active navigation tab reflects a current location of the plurality of locations that is currently selected in the scoping pane within the window and presented in the content pane but the label of the active navigation tab changes to reflect a new location of the plurality of locations within the window when the user navigates from the current location to the new location by selecting the new location in the scoping pane unless the current location has been designated a keep accessible location,wherein if the current location has been designated a keep accessible location, the label of the active navigation tab will have a keep accessible marker indicating the current location as a keep accessible location and when the user navigates from the current location to the new location, a new navigation tab having a label that reflects the new location will appear in the content pane of the user interface, andwherein the user can navigate from the new location back to the current location via the active navigation tab of the current location and access the set of content information associated with the current location and previously displayed in the content pane.