Patent ID: 9244595
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for enhancing capabilities of a graphical display to automatically sort and filter a list of items in a space-constrained view, the method comprising: causing displaying, using graphical display enhancing logic, in a display page of an electronic display screen, a first filtered list of items; the graphical display enhancing logic causing displaying, in the display page as an overlay over the first filtered list of items and without changing to any other display page, a first visual depiction of a first filter; the graphical display enhancing logic receiving a first user input that indicates selection of the first visual depiction of the first filter; the graphical display enhancing logic, in response to the first user input, causing displaying, in the display page and without changing to any other display page, a filter modification overlay over the first list of items that depicts one or more attributes of the first filter; the graphical display enhancing logic receiving a second user input that indicates selection of a first attribute from the one or more attributes of the first filter; the graphical display enhancing logic in response to the second user input, generating a second filtered list of items by excluding from the first filtered list of items those items that do not include the first attribute.