Patent ID: 7911465

Claim:
A method of displaying information for a collection comprising a plurality of elements, the method comprising: displaying, by a computer system a first graphical object representative of a first collection, the first graphical object having an associated first bounds defining an area of a certain shape and size and a grid of tiled cells on a 2-dimensional plane, wherein at least one element in the plurality of elements is associated with more than one cell of the grid; and displaying, by the computer system a graphical object for each element in the plurality of elements of the first collection such that the graphical object for an element is displayed based upon one or more cells of the grid associated with the element represented by the graphical object, wherein the displaying comprises scaling and positioning the grid such that all graphical objects representing the elements of the first collection are displayed within the area defined by the first bounds of the first graphical object; wherein positioning the grid comprises positioning the grid such that a centroid of a span of cells of the grid associated with the plurality of elements is same as a centroid of the first graphical object.