Patent ID: 6356256
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of displaying information on a display device at an altered scale, the method comprising:causing the display device to display a first graph of a set of data at a first scale, the first graph including a first axis and a second axis, the first axis and the second axis associated with a first plot of data points, the first axis further associated with a second plot of data points; causing a user-positionable indicator to be displayed on the display device concurrently with said first graph; receiving user input associated with the user-positionable indicator, the user input for specifying a portion of the first graph; responding to the user input by causing the display device to display a second graph representing the specified portion of the first graph at a second scale different from the first scale; determining a current location of the cursor on the display device; causing the display device to display a first indicator to indicate a location on the first axis that corresponds to the current location of the cursor, the location on the first axis representing both a first value of a data point of the first plot of data points and a first value of a data point of the second plot of data points; causing the display device to display a second indicator to indicate a location on the second axis, the location on the second axis representing a second value of the data point of the first plot of data points, the second value corresponding to the first value; and causing the display device to display a third indicator to indicate a second value of the data point of the second plot of data points, corresponding to the first value of the second plot of data points.