Patent ID: 8205230

Claim:
A computer implemented method of displaying information from a collection of data representing time-bounded events on a first grid having a first axis corresponding to units of time and a second axis, performed by a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the method comprising: presenting search results, for a search of the collection of data, in a second grid having first and second axes, wherein the first grid is a two dimensional grid having a plurality of distinct grid positions along the first axis and a plurality of distinct grid positions along the second axis, the second grid is a two dimensional grid having a plurality of distinct grid positions along the first axis and a plurality of distinct grid positions along the second axis, and at least one of the first and second axes of the second grid corresponds to a different dimension than the corresponding axis of the first grid; enabling a user to select a portion of the second grid, and selecting a subset of the collection of data in accordance with the user selected portion of the second grid, wherein the subset of the collection of data comprises a plurality of search results; and presenting the subset of the collection of data on the first grid, wherein a larger portion of the collection of data is presented on the second grid than the subset presented on the first grid.