Patent ID: 9576068
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for displaying a selected portion of a data set within a display area of a display device, the data set comprising an element group, the element group including a higher-level element and one or more lower-level elements, the method comprising: processing layout information for the higher-level element to identify that a region occupied by the higher-level element does not correspond with a selected portion of the layout area of the data set; based on the identification, determining not to render the higher-level element for display within the display area; determining whether the higher-level element has a predefined spatial relationship with a first lower-level element of the one or more lower-level elements, the predefined spatial relationship indicating that the region occupied by the first lower-level element falls within the region occupied by the higher-level element of the element group; selecting, on the basis of the determination, whether or not to perform a first process, the first process being selected when it is determined that the higher-level element does not have the predefined spatial relationship with the first lower-level element, wherein: