Patent ID: 6271863
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for operating a digital computer to provide a display for entering input values needed in a computation and displaying a result from said computation, said method comprising the steps of:displaying a graphical element comprising a symbol having a linear dimension representing the magnitude of one of said input values, said magnitude being changeable by using a pointing device to manipulate a specified region on said graphical element thereby changing said linear dimension, said graphical element being displayed on a display screen connected to said digital computer, said input value determining a cash flow in at least one of a plurality of time periods;repetitively monitoring said graphical element to detect a change in said graphical element; anddisplaying a graph of a set of points, one of said points corresponding to each of said time periods, wherein one coordinate of each of said points represents a balance in an account during said time period corresponding to that point, and the other coordinate of that point represents said time period corresponding to that point, said graph being displayed each time a change is detected in said graphical element, at least one of said points depending on said input value.