Patent ID: 7496385

Claim:
A method for displaying information about an item in a graphical user interface, the method comprising: presenting one or more fields of an item via the graphical user interface; presenting an icon associated with the item; and in response to a user selecting said icon, presenting extended information associated with said item, said extended information presented in place of one or more previously presented fields of said item, wherein said item is part of a list of items and wherein the method further comprises: presenting one or more fields of each item in said list of items; presenting, for each item in said list of items, an icon associated with said item; in response to the user selecting said icon associated with one of said items, presenting extended information associated with said one of said items, said extended information presented in place of one or more previously presented fields of said one of said items; and in response to the user selecting said icon associated with said one of said items a second time, replacing said extended information with said previously presented one or more fields.