Patent ID: 7484185

Claim:
A method for displaying a multilevel treeview of hierarchical information within a pane of a computer display window, comprising: searching an information hierarchy for a plurality of occurrences of a specified information element of the information hierarchy, based upon a search criteria; displaying within the pane the multilevel treeview of the information hierarchy; displaying within the multilevel treeview an indicator which indicates whether a displayed element of the information hierarchy comprises sub-elements, on one side of the multilevel treeview; indicating within the multilevel treeview locations of the plurality of found occurrences of the specified information element; graphically connecting via a graphical connection, only the plurality of occurrences of the specified information element within the multilevel treeview, the graphical connection being positioned on an opposite side from the indicator with respect to the multilevel treeview, and comprising: a plurality of horizontal lines extending outward from each displayed found occurrence of the specified information element, and a vertical line positioned to intersect an outward end of each of the plurality of horizontal lines, the vertical line being terminated between a horizontal line corresponding to a first displayed found occurrence of the specified information element and a last displayed found occurrence of the specified information element; selecting an occurrence of the specified information element within the multilevel treeview; and displaying a pop-up menu positioned directly beneath the selected occurrence of the specified information element, the pop-up menu comprising: statistical information on the total number of occurrences of the specified information element, and a link to a next occurrence of the specified information element.