Patent ID: 7765465

Claim:
A computer-implemented interface embodied on a computer readable storage medium for reporting electronic data interchange (EDI) results at a computer, comprising: an EDI report section generated by the computer from EDI source data to interactively present EDI reports for the EDI source data, wherein each of the EDI reports mimics a nesting structure of the EDI source data, wherein the nesting structure has a plurality of levels, the report including a hyperlink at each level of the nesting structure, and wherein each nesting level further includes EDI data for the nesting level in addition to the hyperlink, and wherein each hyperlink maps to a designated portion of the EDI source data; and an EDI source section configured to interactively present EDI source data for which one of the EDI reports has been generated, wherein the EDI reports and the EDI source data are markup based documents, and wherein the hyperlinks of the EDI reports are color coded, wherein each different colored link indicates a different error status.