Patent ID: 8427502

Claim:
A graphic editor apparatus comprising: a display interface to display in a bounded region thereof a plurality of graphical representations of data items in a first distribution of information-conveying states; a context data processor to establish a context portion to include at least one of the data items; a display data processor to render the graphical representations of the data items into a second distribution of the information-conveying states across the bounded region of the display interface to concurrently: (a) increase an amount of information conveyed to a user by the graphical representation of the data item in the context portion, and (b) reduce an amount of information conveyed to a user by the graphical representations of the data items outside the context portion, the graphical representations of the data items remaining visible in the bounded region of the display interface; and at least one user control to modify a data item in the bounded region of the display interface in the second distribution of the information-conveying states of the graphical representations of the data items, wherein the second distribution of information-conveying states includes at least one different information-conveying state selected from a plurality of information-conveying states maintained for a data item, the different information-conveying state replacing an original information-conveying state of the data item.