Patent ID: 7076742
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of obtaining inputs from an authoring user for authoring of a treemap display page, comprising: presenting to the authoring user a first graphical user interface that can receive a data definition from the authoring user, wherein the data definition defines a set of data to be represented by a treemap of the treemap display page; presenting to the authoring user a second graphical user interface that can receive a treemap configuration definition from the authoring user, wherein the treemap configuration definition defines the format of the treemap display page; and generating at least one electronic specification from the data definition and the treemap configuration definition, wherein the electronic specification can be processed by a computer at a later time, using the data definition to retrieve values of the data that are current as of the later time, to generate treemap display data that can be used to draw the treemap display page.