Patent ID: 7333951
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for organizing information for a plurality of securities which are being tracked in a hand held computing device of the type which is capable of exchanging information with a communications center, comprising: maintaining a data list in the hand held computing device, which includes information for all of the plurality of securities being tracked; limiting the data list to a predetermined number of securities; displaying a first number which indicates a running total of the number of items in the data list, and displaying a second number which indicates the predetermined number of items permitted in the data list; receiving information for all of the plurality of securities being tracked from the communication center to the hand held computing device over a wireless link; receiving input from the user of the hand held device which defines at least one category tag for each of the plurality of the securities being tracked; generating a plurality of different sublists wherein each sublist includes a different subset of the plurality of securities being tracked, wherein each sublist corresponds to a user defined category tag, whereby each security displayed in a particular sublist has a user defined category tag which corresponds to the user defined category tag of the particular sublist; for at least a first one of the securities being tracked providing at least two user defined category tags; and displaying in a sublist associated with a designated user defined category tag all of those securities in the data list which have the designated category tag, wherein the first security which has at least two different user defined category tags, will be displayed in at least two different sublists of securities based on the at least two user defined category tags provided for the first security.