Patent ID: 6211880
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A display for identifying trends in a financial market having a number of analogous components with at least two corresponding characteristics and a corresponding variable element comprising:a plurality of complementary geometrically shaped fields, each representative of one of the components, displayed side by side in a graphical array bordered on two sides by a first and second intersecting axis, the first axis representative of a first characteristic of the components and the second axis representative of a second characteristic of the components, the respective fields being positioned in an area between the axes in order of priority, to be conveyed to a display observer, of the impact each characteristic for each component has on a process common to each of the components; andmeans for independently varying a visual pattern within each field according to a common code which incrementally changes between a first pattern representative of a first extreme, a second pattern representative of a second extreme and an intermediate pattern representative of a reference value which is a monitored value of the variable element associated with the corresponding component, at a first common point in time for all fields, and the first and second extremes are predetermined numerical deviations from the reference value, wherein the pattern displayed in each field corresponds to the deviation of the variable element from the variable element's corresponding reference value for the respective component at the last point in time that the variable element was monitored.