Patent ID: 9652117
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for displaying information in a computer system having a visual display device with available display space for displaying representations of a plurality of data items, comprising: determining levels of aggregation of aggregated abstract visual elements based on a quantity of the plurality of data items and an amount of the available display space, wherein the aggregated abstract visual elements have a plurality of differing levels of aggregation and are selected to drill down from a highest level of aggregation, through intermediate levels of aggregation, to abstract visual elements and to data items; generating abstract visual elements that each represent a different group of the plurality of data items; generating the aggregated abstract visual elements that each represent a different group of the abstract visual elements; displaying, arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, some of the plurality of data items as unabstracted data items on the visual display device and remaining data items of the plurality of data items as the aggregated abstract visual elements; and in response to drilling from the highest level of aggregation through intermediate levels of aggregation to a selected abstract visual element,