Patent ID: 8713471

Claim:
A computing system implemented method for providing an intelligent visual data scrollbar position indicator comprising the following, which when executed individually or collectively by any set of one or more processors perform a process comprising: organizing data into two or more data entries with each data entry including one or more data fields containing information and then listing the two or more data entries in a data table; displaying the data table in a data table user interface display displayed on a display device associated with a computing system; providing a scrolling capability whereby a user can scroll through the data table displayed in the data table user interface display; displaying a scrolling symbol for activation of the scrolling capability, the scrolling symbol being displayed in the data table user interface display; selecting at least one of the one or more data fields containing information of the two or more data entries as a data display field; activating via user input the scrolling capability via the scrolling symbol; determining, while the scrolling capability is activated and information is changing in the display field, how many characters of the information in the data display field will be used as display data based, at least in part, on the data display field selected and the rate of change of information in the selected data display field; and while the scrolling capability is activated, displaying in the data table user interface display, the display data associated with each data entry in the data table as each data entry in the data table is scrolled through and the scroll is positioned on the data entry.