Patent ID: 6037938
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of displaying information about a large number of interdependent data elements in a computer screen area that is small compared with the number of data elements to be displayed, each data element being defined by a data element type and a data element value and having an associated status value, comprising:displaying the data element types of said data elements as a scrollable list in said computer screen area, and, for each data element type which defines more than one different data element which has a predetermined status value, displaying a predetermined indication thereof in association with the data element type in the scrollable list;sorting, in response to a change of the status value of at least one of said data elements, the data element types in said scrollable list according to the status values of the data elements defined by the data element types, the method further comprising the step of displaying, in response to the activation by a user of a data element type for which said predetermined indication is displayed, at least the data element values of the data elements being defined by the activated data element type and having the predetermined status value, andindicating which of the displayed data element values define data elements having said predetermined status value.