Patent ID: 7379945
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of display of data to a user, said method comprising: displaying a popup calculator to the user via a display interface of a computer system; performing an evaluation of a specified function of set of functions, said performing the evaluation being under interactive control of the popup calculator by the user via the display interface; displaying a result of the evaluation to the user via the display interface; wherein the result of the evaluation includes information derived from a plurality of tables comprised by a database; wherein each table comprises at least one column and at least one row; wherein the plurality of tables describes a plurality of components of a hierarchy in which hierarchical relationships between components of the hierarchy are defined; wherein the database stored in the computer system, and wherein the plurality of tables comprises a component table and a plurality of component-specific tables; wherein the component table encompasses all components of the hierarchy, wherein the components of the hierarchy encompass a plurality of component types, and wherein the at least one column of the component table comprise a component_id column that identifies each component, a parent_id column that identifies a parent component of each component, and a type_name column that specifies a component type of each component; wherein each component-specific table encompasses only components of the hierarchy such that each component has a component type that is a specific component type, wherein the at least one column of each component-specific table comprises a component_id column and a component information column, wherein the component_id column of each component-specific table identifies each component in each component-specific table, is a primary key for each component-specific table, and is a foreign key pointing to a corresponding component in the component table, and wherein the component information column of each component-specific table comprises a description or content of each component in each component-specific table.