Patent ID: 6188403
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: G06F,G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-based system for generating, for presentation on one or more displays, graphics representative of elements in a database, each element being characterized by one or more variables, comprising:a computer program product having computer readable code thereon to enable a computing device to undertake the steps of:presenting, on the display, a variable list of at least some of the variables;presenting, on the display, a graphical list of at least some graphics attributes of at least one non-alpha numeric graphics object selected from the group of objects consisting of spheres, pies, and bars;permitting a user to correlate at least some of the variables to respective graphics attributes by clicking on graphics attributes in the graphical list and dragging the attributes over respective variables on the variable list; andpresenting on the display the graphics object or objects, based on the correlation of variables to graphics attributes such that the graphics object or objects have spatial characteristics that are defined by the respective variables, the graphics object being displayed with the lists.