Patent ID: 7178109

Claim:
A user interface for viewing reference data associated with a conceptual entity and for selectively executing multiple complex processes for manipulating said data, comprising: a process panel including: (a) a process work area for displaying a state of a selected one of said complex processes; (b) a first display region displaying a list of all available ones of said multiple complex processes; and (c) a second display region for displaying one or both of: (i) all currently running ones of said multiple complex processes; and (ii) all ones of said multiple complex processes that have been run in a computing session; a data viewer comprising a content pane for the display of said reference data and one or more on-screen objects for selectively displaying at least a portion of said reference data; a common window framing the process panel and data viewer; and said process panel and data viewer being selectably viewable and occupying overlapping positions within said common window, said user interface arranged to display the first display region, the second display region, and the data viewer in contemporaneous and non-overlapping manner when the data viewer is selected, and to display the first display region, the second display region, and the process work area in contemporaneous and non-overlapping manner when the process panel is selected.