Patent ID: 8832600

Claim:
A method, comprising: rendering a display of names of a first and second data sets in a search panel, wherein each data set is associated with one or more file components; receiving selection of the displayed first data set name in the search panel; displaying names of the file components associated with the selected first data set in the search panel; receiving selection of at least one of the displayed file component names associated with the selected first data set; rendering the selected data set name and the selected at least one selected file component name in a history panel, wherein the selected first data set name and selected at least one file component are displayed in a hierarchical tree arrangement, and wherein the history panel and the search panel are rendered concurrently in a graphical user interface; receiving selection of the displayed second data set name in the search panel; displaying names of the file components associated with the selected second data set in the search panel; receiving selection of at least one of the displayed file component names associated with the selected second data set; and rendering the selected second data set name and the selected at least one selected file component name associated with the selected second data set in the history panel, wherein the selected first and second data set names and selected file component names associated with the first and second data sets are displayed together in the hierarchical tree arrangement to display previously and currently selected data set names and file component names of the selected data sets and wherein the rendered selected first and second data set names and the selected file component names in the history panel are rendered concurrently in the graphical user interface with the search panel separately rendering the selected displayed file component names associated with the selected second data set name.