Patent ID: 7082567

Claim:
A method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface, comprising the steps of: (a) managing a plurality of data files with a host application, the host application supporting applet execution; (b) selecting a data file from a plurality of data files; (c) analyzing the contents of the data file for the presence of data of a first data type and a second data type; (d) processing data of the first data type through a first applet and data of the second data type through a second applet, wherein the first applet is a first reader for data of the first data type, and the second applet is a second reader for data of the second data type that reads data from the data file after a header of the data file until an end of file marker is encountered in the data file, wherein data of the first data type is located in the data file after the end of file marker; (e) merging and formatting the processed first and second data within the host application; and (f) displaying the merged and formatted processed first and second data.