Patent ID: 8078985
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system, comprising: a display device to display a graphical user interface, and a processor, executing program instructions that operate as the graphical user interface, comprising: a plurality of display panes, each of the plurality of display panes simultaneously displaying a different series of multiple data items retrieved from plurality of separate files, each data item having an assigned index value upon which is based a relative position of the data item within the series of data items as presented in each respective display pane, and each data item includes data indicating processes performed by one of a plurality of different processors, and a user control element to scroll among data items displayed in a first of the display panes corresponding to a first set of data items wherein a reference index value corresponds to a position of the user control element on the displayed graphical user interface and movement of the control element is translated into a relative change in the reference index value and scrolls to a data item having an assigned index value corresponding to the reference index value, the graphical user interface causes a second display pane to scroll to a data item in a different series of data items retrieved from files different from the data items displayed in the first display pane, the data items are displayed in the second display pane based on the reference index value corresponding to the position of the user control element, wherein: in the second display pane, for any displayed data item having an assigned index value that falls outside a threshold range of the reference index value, the graphical user interface applies a display format that differs from a display format used for displayed data items having index values that fall within the threshold range of the reference index value, and wherein the threshold range is one of a plurality of successive index value ranges wherein, when data items with assigned index values outside of each successive range are simultaneously displayed in the second pane with data items having index values within each successive range, the graphical use interface applies a display format that differs for data items within and data items without each successive range.