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Patent Title: Tree form menu display for a data processing system

Assignee: IBM
Patent Number: US5621905
Issue Date: 04-15-1997
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File Date:10-08-1993

Abstract: A data processing system displays options for selection by a user as a hierarchical tree form diagram. When a user indicates his first selected option to the data processing system it calculates what further selections are and are not available as a result of the selected option. It then modifies the display to show the options which are available for selection and those which are not. A selection list is stored and updated by the data processing system and the options input by the user are executed when the selection list is complete.

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