Patent ID: 7760203

Claim:
A method of displaying data, comprising: accessing, by a computer, a set of data records that have associated time indexes; generating, by the computer, pixels to represent the data records, the colors of the pixels being based on attribute values of the data records; arranging, by the computer, the pixels into plural bars that represent first time intervals; segmenting, by the computer, each of the bars into bar segments that represent second time intervals; arranging, by the computer, the pixels into lines within each of the bar segments based on the associated time indexes, with each line corresponding to a third time interval and adjacent lines corresponding to adjacent third time intervals, wherein the first, second, and third time intervals are different time intervals; displaying the pixels as arranged in the bars, bar segments, and lines of pixels; inserting visible gaps between bar segments in each of the bars; and in each of the lines, providing filler pixels to represent missing data records to cause lengths of the lines to be equal, wherein each of the filler pixels has a predefined color that is different from colors assigned to pixels associated with the data records in the set.