Patent ID: 8671363

Claim:
A method for rendering data on a display, comprising: rendering two or more dimensions on said display in a manner that depicts a sequential relationship between said two or more dimensions by indentation along a first direction; wherein each rendered dimension on said display depicts multiple dimension instances aligned in a second direction relative to one another and aligned in the second direction relative to a name, wherein each dimension instance is an instance of a dimension of said name; wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; for a first dimension in said sequential relationship rendered at furthest indentation along the first direction on said display, performing: upon determining that data is associated with a first instance of said first dimension, rendering on said display closer to the first instance than to a second instance of said second dimension, at least a top level node of a tree of nodes in association with a first control, wherein said tree of nodes contains said data in one or more child nodes of said top level node and at least said top level node is initially rendered; wherein a first name of the first dimension is rendered on said display indented furthest along the first direction relative to a second name of a second dimension; wherein said first instance is rendered indented furthest along the first direction relative to the second instance of said second dimension; wherein multiple first instances of the first dimension including said first instance are rendered aligned in the second direction relative to one another and aligned in the second direction relative to the first name, and multiple second instances of the second dimension including said second instance are rendered aligned in the second direction relative to one another and aligned in the second direction relative to the second name; and in response to user selection of said first control, rendering at least one of said child nodes with a second control and with at least said top level node and said names on said display.