Patent ID: 7644366

Claim:
A method for managing and displaying related information in a graphical user interface, comprising: determining one or more privileges assigned to a user, wherein the privileges assigned to the user include a union of individual rights defined in a user profile for the user and of rights defined for one or more security groups to which the user belongs; generating a predefined query model that provides a logical model of at least one database, wherein the predefined query model exposes data in the database to the user in accordance with the privileges determined for the user; storing a plurality of views of the exposed data in the database in a respective separate discrete file, wherein each of the plurality of views include a respective result of executing one or more queries of the data exposed by the predefined query model; storing a compound file that provides a file system for linking the plurality of views to one another, wherein the user's access to the compound file is determined by the privileges assigned to the user; displaying a catalog window and a portfolio window adjacently to one another within a display window of a graphical user interface, wherein the catalog window displays a file hierarchy that corresponds to the file system linking the plurality of views to one another; and displaying a plurality of discrete windows within the portfolio window displayed adjacently to the catalog window, wherein each of the plurality of discrete windows displayed within the portfolio window displays a separate one of the plurality of views linked to one another through the compound file.