Patent ID: 8122369

Claim:
A system for providing information to a user comprising: a screen for showing the information to the user, wherein the screen is the screen of a portable device or a personal computer, receiving means for receiving one or more values from a source of values on which values the information shown to the user is based, generating means for generating two or more data lines wherein each of said data lines comprise at least one data set, wherein the data sets comprise data which are based on said values and wherein the data sets are assigned to the at least two or more data lines by predetermined or changeable criteria, wherein at least a first data set out of the data sets forming the data lines comprises a sparkline formed out of a plurality of graphical elements representing data of the first data set, wherein the plurality of graphical elements of the sparkline form a series of columns or bars or a line diagram representing values of the first data set, displaying means for simultaneously showing said two or more data lines to the user on said screen, and detail displaying means effective to display additional details referring to data represented by the graphical elements of said sparkline, wherein the detail displaying means is effective to dynamically enlarge the distance between at least two of a plurality of graphical elements of said sparkline in order to place the additional details into the generated space upon activation by the user.