Patent ID: 8161407
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a computer controlled user interactive display system, a method for sequential multiple-sorting of displayed columns in a display interface representative of a tabular database comprising: displaying a table of a plurality of columns, each column representing a data element of said database; selectively displaying a first radial menu having a plurality of arcuate sectors, each sector representative of the data element represented in a corresponding one of said plurality of columns; enabling a user to select one of said sectors; displaying a second radial menu of said plurality of sectors, responsive to a user selection of a sector, wherein said second radial menu is identical with said first radial menu except said selected one sector is disabled; enabling said user to select another of said sectors in said second radial menu; displaying a subsequent radial menu of said plurality of sectors, responsive to a user selection of said another sector in said second radial menu, identical with said first radial menu except said selected one and another sectors are disabled; wherein the order of selection in said sequence of said first, second, and subsequent radial menus determines the order of the multiple-sorting; sorting said plurality of columns in said table by weight; and enabling the user to change a size of one or more of said sectors wherein a weight of the column represented by said changed sector in said sorting is charged.