Patent ID: 9613018
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A system for formatting data for display on a computer display screen, the system comprising: one or more hardware processors; a computer display screen configured to display data via a graphical user interface (GUI); a computer readable data storage device coupled to the one or more hardware processors, the computer readable data storage device having stored thereon software instructions that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations including: receiving a digital signal containing a GUI display effect formatting command for data stored in a computer medium; creating a GUI display effect formula for a formatting column; hiding the formatting column from being displayed by the graphical user interface on the computer display screen; dynamically computing a GUI display effect using the display effect formula for a formatting column; choosing a section of data to be displayed on the computer display screen via the graphical user interface; computing the GUI display effect for the section of data to be displayed on the the computer display screen via the graphical interface using the hidden formatting column; applying the computed GUI display effect to the section of data to be displayed; displaying on the computer display screen the section of data with the applied computed GUI display effect.