Patent ID: 6101493
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer system, comprising:a database containing tables of data;a display device, said display device having a plurality of display areas, each of the display areas displays data items from an associated table within said database; anda processor unit, said processor unit operates to access said database to retrieve the data items from the corresponding associated tables and then display the retrieved data items in the display areas corresponding thereto, and to detect a selection of a displayed data item within a selected one of the display areas by a user and thereafter to automatically modify the data items being displayed in the other of the display areas in accordance with the selected data item by accessing said database to retrieve the data items in two groups, those data items that are related to the selected data item and those data items that are unrelated to the selected data item, by ordering the data items within each of the groups separately, and by respectively displaying the ordered data items for each of the groups in the other of the display areas so that the group of the data items in the other of the display areas that is related to the selected data item is displayed in a visually distinct manner as compared to the group of the data items in the other of the display areas that is unrelated to the selected data item.