Patent ID: 9251487
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for representing events in a project as a project view, the method comprising: providing a computer system including a display, non-transient data storage, a processor; and an input device; storing event data containing data attributes pertaining to one or more events in the non-transient data storage, the data attributes having data types of at least one of strings, numbers, and dates; providing a set of style rules, the style rules relating one or more predetermined graphical attributes with one or more of said data attributes; for each of the one or more events, rendering a marker in the project view along a timeline on the display, the graphical attributes of each displayed marker being determined based on at least one data attribute of each event and one or more applicable graphical attributes associated with the data attributes as determined by the set of style rules; a user manually changing the graphical attributes of one or more of said markers to display the graphical attributes other than those dictated by the set of style rules; and updating the event data as pertaining to one or more events; and automatically re-rendering the markers in the project view based on changes in the data attributes except for the one or more markers having manually changed graphical attributes.