Patent Document ID: 8782554
Application ID: 11351397

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing to a user a context menu with entries representing relationships, wherein the entries are selectable by the user to relate a plurality of objects selected from a set of objects, the method comprising: receiving a first identification of a first selected object from the set of objects; receiving a second identification of a second selected object from the set of objects; identifying object types of the selected objects in a plurality of object types; determining one or more relationship types requiring at least one object of the object type of the first selected object and at least one object of the object type of the second selected object as input in order to be created as a relationship between objects; and generating for the context menu an entry for creating a relationship of the one or more relationship types, wherein the entry is selectable by the user to create the relationship between the selected objects, and wherein the relationship changes an attribute of each object.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the one or more relationship types comprises: selecting the one or more relationship types from a set of relationship types; and deleting a selected relationship type that is specified by a negative assignment, wherein the negative assignment which assigns a relationship type to a plurality of object types signifies that a relationship of the relationship type is not applicable to relate a plurality of objects having object types that are specified by the negative assignment.