Patent ID: 8332780

Claim:
A method of adaptively displaying visual components within a drop down list box based on a history record of a user interacting with the drop down list box, the method comprising: responsive to a user activation of an icon representing the drop down list box: searching the history record stored in a history record database for data that represents an association of the history record with the drop down list box, the data including an identification of data entries previously selected from a display of a drop down list in the drop down list box; if the data is not found by the searching, displaying a default version of the drop down list in the drop down list box; if the data is found by the searching, displaying a modified version of the drop down list that is modified in accordance with the history record of the user, searching a filter box database for data that represents an association of a filter box with the drop down list box; and if the data that represents the association of the filter box with the drop down list box is found by the searching, displaying the filter box within the drop down list box; if the data that represents the association of the filter box with the drop down list box is not found by the searching, displaying the drop down list box without the filter box.