Patent ID: 7962514

Claim:
A computer implemented method for providing an indication of an annotation to a portion of a first view of data, comprising: receiving an annotation to the portion of the first view of data, wherein a view of data comprises a collection of tabular data that contains visible sub-objects and that is returned from executing a query against a data source, and wherein the portion of the first view of data comprises a subset of the visible sub-objects, wherein the subset includes at least two of the visible sub-objects; receiving user input specifying one or more visible sub-objects of the annotated portion of the first view of data, for which the annotation is visible; providing an interface, wherein a second view of data is displayed via the interface; by operation of one or more computer processors, analyzing the second view of data to identify sub-objects visible in both the second view of data and the annotated portion of the first view of data; and providing an indication of the annotation in the interface, upon determining that the specified one or more sub-objects is visible in the second view of data, wherein providing an indication of the annotation in the interface comprises outputting for display an indicator proximate one or more sub-objects visible in the second view of data that are also visible in the annotated portion of the first view of data.