Patent ID: 7263667

Claim:
A man-machine interface method for assisting a user in a decision making process, for use with a machine having a video monitor device and a user input device, the man-machine interface method comprising: accepting a decisional event from the user input device, the decisional event utilized as a basis to query one or more external or internal data sources to gather first and second information related to the decisional event, the decisional event employed to determine a state of a man-machine interface; generating a three-dimensional display for output on the video monitor device where the determined state is a standby state, the display including a first window displaying first information of a first type, the first information being related to the decisional event, and a second window displaying second information of a second type, the second information being related to the decisional event; and generating a visual indicator that associates the first information of the first window and the second information of the second window.