Patent ID: 7685510
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data display method of a data characterization display machine, comprising: for each of a plurality of datasets to be displayed, assigning to the dataset, by a processor of the data characterization display machine, one of four metadata values, and assigning the dataset to a main category, wherein datasets identified by metadata as being related to each other are assigned to a same main category; displaying, by the processor, the datasets, such that datasets assigned to a same main category are displayed adjacent to each other; for each of the datasets: wherein the four metadata values include: (1) a first metadata value indicating that a dataset to which it is assigned is at a first end of the main category to which the dataset has been assigned, (2) a second metadata value indicating that a dataset to which it is assigned is at a second end of the main category to which the dataset has been assigned, (3) a third metadata value indicating that a dataset to which it is assigned is not at an end of the main category to which the dataset has been assigned, and (4) a fourth metadata value indicating that a dataset to which it is assigned is an only dataset of the main category to which the dataset has been assigned.