Patent ID: 6948135

Claim:
A method of providing information to a computer user comprising: displaying, in a navigable window of a display area of a user interface, a first contextual display associated with a first context that can enable a user to accomplish one or more tasks, said displaying being accomplished using a single application program that is configured to provide multiple different contexts; and without changing the first context and using the single application program, presenting quick link to one or more contexts that are different from the user's current context and that are provided by the single application program, each context being associated with a functionality that can enable the user to accomplish various tasks that are different form the one or more task that the user can accomplish using the first contextual display, the quick links being selectable to navigate the navigable window to a context associated with a selectable quick link, wherein said displaying is accomplished by the single application program using a navigable window comprising a single window, the application program being configured to navigate the single window between different contexts responsive to the user selecting a quick link; displaying user-engagable indicia, each of which being associated with one or more quick links, said indicia being configured for engagement by a user so that the user can view the associated one or more quick links.