Patent ID: 6938218

Claim:
A method of organizing and displaying data on a display device, said data comprised of a plurality of separate units for display, said method comprising the steps of: (1) relating said data units to each other in a spatial organization of at least three dimensions; and (2) displaying a simultaneously on said display device a proper subset of said data units in positions relative to each other representative of said spatial organization; said spatial organization comprising a virtual volume containing a plurality of at least three-dimensional polyhedrons having faces, wherein each data unit is displayed in a separate one of said faces and wherein said spatial organization comprises a virtual volume containing said data units that is larger than said virtual volume represented in said display of said display device; (3) enabling an operator to manipulate said display so as to move one of said data units on said display; and (4) responsive to movement by said operator of one of said data units, moving other ones of said plurality of data units on said display so as to maintain said spatial relationship of said plurality of data units; wherein step (2) comprises displaying five data units simultaneously in an array comprising a central window, a left window to the left of said central window, a right window to the right of said central window, a top window to the top of said central window, a bottom window to the bottom of said central window, said individual data units, respectively, being displayed in said individual windows.