Patent ID: 8296173

Claim:
A method comprising: providing, over a network, shared information regarding a transaction, wherein the transaction comprises one or more deals, one or more contacts, and one or more accounts, and the one or more deals are associated with the one or more contacts and the one or more accounts; importing the shared information regarding the transaction from an external source, wherein the shared information is imported into shared information tables; and generating, from the shared information tables, an event characteristics table, wherein the event characteristics table comprises one or more data items generated from the shared information contained in the shared information tables, each of the one or more data items is associated with one or more of the deals, the one or more data items are used to generate one or more display objects for a graphical display, each of the one or more display objects represents a deal of the one or more deals, and display characteristics of each display object graphically indicate characteristics of the deal.