Patent ID: 8046677

Claim:
A method of displaying data comprising: identifying display data for display, the display data comprising first display data and second display data; identifying relations for the display data, the relations for the display data comprising a plurality of relations between the first display data and other display data, the other display data including the second display data; displaying the display data in a data display having a tabular column and a spatial column, the spatial column offset from the tabular column within the data display, the tabular column having a first tabular cell and a second tabular cell, and the spatial column having a first spatial cell and a second spatial cell, the first tabular cell being associated with the first spatial cell in a first data display row, the second tabular cell being associated with the second spatial cell in a second data display row, wherein the tabular column displays the display data in a tabular form and the spatial column displays the plurality of relations within the display data in a spatial form; displaying a first data identifier for the first display data in the first tabular cell; displaying, in the first spatial cell, a first spatial identifier representing the first display data, the first spatial identifier comprising a horizontal bar common spatial identifier with a horizontal length, the horizontal length indicating an amount of the plurality of relations between the first display data and the other display data; displaying a second data identifier for the second display data in the second tabular cell; displaying, in the second spatial cell, a second spatial identifier representing the second display data; and displaying a plurality of spatial connectors connecting the first spatial identifier to spatial identifiers for the other display data according to the relations, the spatial identifiers for the other display data including the second spatial identifier.