Patent ID: 7168039

Claim:
A computer generated method for reducing an amount of horizontal space required when displaying a plurality of column on a display screen, at least one column of the plurality of columns including at least one entry containing text data, the method comprising the steps of: (a) defining a first character type as a space, a second character type as a lower case vowel and a third character type as a lower case letter; (b) obtaining the at least one entry; and (c) abbreviating a width of the at least one entry by (c1) removing at least one of the first character type if the at least one entry includes the at least one of the first character type; (c2) removing at least one of the second character type if the at least one entry includes the at least one of the second character type; and (c3) removing at least one of the third character type if the at least one entry includes the at least one of the third character type.