Patent ID: 7539951

Claim:
A method of using navigation area controls and indicators for non-hierarchies for a user-interface structure, said method comprising: displaying a navigation area; displaying a content area; said navigation area displaying an indicator of a non-hierarchical mesh structure; said content area displaying detailed information about files or objects; said non-hierarchical mesh structure representing a topology of all possible relationships between said files or objects within a hierarchical structure; said non-hierarchical mesh structure providing indicators and quick-access controls for nodes on a navigation tree which represents all said files or objects which appear one or more times in said hierarchical structure; based on a user's input, displaying both said hierarchical structure and displaying said non-hierarchical mesh structure displays all parent nodes corresponding to a given child node, under said given child node; indicating to said user whether said hierarchical structure or said non-hierarchical mesh structure is displayed; wherein said content area further comprising additional attributes, mesh column, and non-hierarchical information; wherein a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional graph representing said topology of all possible relationships between said files or objects within said hierarchical structure; displaying and tagging all redundant nodes on said navigation tree; displaying and tagging all container nodes representing redundant tree nodes and appearing more than once in said navigation tree; displaying and tagging all end nodes on said navigation tree; toggling between an expanded view and a compressed view of said container nodes; contextually and inline with said navigation tree, said user re-orienting said navigation tree, displaying said given child node on top of all said parent nodes corresponding to said given child node for a given container node.