System for displaying a computer managed network layout with a first transient display of a user selected primary attribute of an object and a supplementary transient display of secondary attributes
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Aug 8, 2000
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Nov 17, 1997
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A computer managed communication network with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals and including a plurality of network objects, each respectfully associated with one of a plurality of linked network nodes. The network includes means such as databases for storing data representing attributes of network objects. There is graphically displayed on at least one of said display terminals, at least a portion of said linked network nodes and associated objects. In addition, there is a user interactive implementation for activating for each of a plurality of objects, a primary transient display of a selected primary attribute of said object adjacent to the object and a second transient display of supplementary attributes of said object, remote from said selected object and active during the transience of the primary transient display. The invention operates effectively in a display setup in which objects are graphically displayed as icons without alphanumeric labels and the primary transient display serves to label selected object.
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