Patent ID: 8786628

Claim:
A method for rendering a single element view of an electronic chart object, the method comprising: identifying, by a computing device, a set of chart elements that have a common set of properties; determining, by a computing device, a plurality of data point locations for each chart element in the set of chart elements; generating, by a computing device, a path information for each of the chart elements, the path information comprising each of the plurality of data point locations for each chart element; providing, by a computing device, the path information to a rendering engine selected for rendering the set of chart elements, wherein the selected rendering engine is optimized relative to a plurality of properties associated with the set of chart elements; rendering the path information by the selected rendering, by a computing device, engine for display as a single shape, wherein each subsequent chart element of the set of chart elements is rendered as a continuation of a previous chart element of the set of chart elements.