Patent ID: 7358960

Claim:
A method for displaying two-dimensional data on small screen devices, comprising the operations of: providing a first data set display section on a screen, the first data set display section capable of presenting a list of entries in a first data set, the first data set being arranged in a first dimension of the two-dimensional data; providing a second data set display section on the screen, the second data set display section capable of presenting only one of a particular entry from a second data set associated with a selected entry from the first data set, the second data set being arranged in a second dimension of the two-dimensional data, and wherein the second data set display section on the screen being separate from each of the entries in the first data set and presenting of the particular entry from the second data set does not graphically affect the list of entries in the first data set that are displayed at the same time the particular entry of the second data set is displayed, in the second data set display section; and presenting only one of a new entry from the second data set in the second data set display section in response to receiving a navigation command related to the second data set and the navigation command being in the second dimension of the two-dimensional data, the new entry being associated with the selected entry from the first data set.