Patent ID: 8645262

Claim:
A method of displaying financial security information comprising: receiving over a network and combining by a computer processor system coupled to a memory system for substantially simultaneous display on a computer screen using a first order, and repeatedly updating, a first set of at least four small charts or at least some of the information contained therein, each comprising a first type of information corresponding to a quantity of at least one security, a plurality of the at least four small charts corresponding to different securities from one another; electronically displaying on the computer screen a second type of information about a first of the at least one security displayed in a small chart, such second type of information different from the first type displayed in said small chart and simultaneously displayed with said small chart, at least some of the second type of information having been received over the network; receiving an indication that one of the small charts has been selected by a user using the computer screen; and responsive to the small chart selected: receiving over a network and combining by the computer processor system coupled to the memory system for substantially simultaneous electronic display on the computer screen using a second order, and repeatedly updating, a second set of at least four small charts or at least some of the information contained therein, each comprising the first type of information, each small chart corresponding to a quantity of at least one security, a plurality of the second set of at least four small charts corresponding to different securities from one another; and outputting by the computer processor system coupled to the memory system over the network for electronic display on the computer screen the second type of information about a second of the at least one security displayed in one of the small charts in the second set of small charts, such second type of information different from the first type of information displayed in said small chart and simultaneously displayed with said small chart; and wherein either: the securities corresponding to the small charts in the first set of at least four small charts match the securities corresponding to the small charts in the second set of at least four small charts, but the second order is different from the first order; or one of the small charts in the first set of at least four small charts corresponds to a security that is not in the second set of at least four small charts, but a remainder of the small charts have a same order relative to one another in the first set and the second set.