Patent ID: 8099079

Claim:
A data visualization method for use in visualizing data on a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising a display area and being adapted to receive process data comprising an executable process, the method comprising: executing the executable process in the mobile terminal, the executable process comprising a game; generating by the executable process, a visualization request, wherein the visualization request is autonomously generated by the executable process without a request from a user of the mobile terminal; receiving by an application in the mobile terminal the visualization request from the executable process executed in the mobile terminal, the application in the mobile terminal comprising an advertising application; pausing the executable process in response to sending the visualization request while the visualization request is being fulfilled by the application in the mobile terminal; selecting data by the application in the mobile terminal in accordance with the visualization request; and performing a visualization process by the application in the mobile terminal based upon the visualization request in which the selected data are displayed in the display area, wherein execution of the executable process is resumed when the visualization request has been fulfilled, the visualization process comprising displaying an advertisement image and a plurality of selectable items associated therewith, and monitoring for selection of one of said selectable items during said step of pausing the executable process, wherein the selecting data by the application in the mobile terminal in accordance with the visualization request comprises selecting data in accordance with preferences associated with the mobile terminal which comprise previously stored preference data associated with a user of the mobile terminal.