Patent ID: 7925994

Claim:
A navigation system for navigating through computer implementable tasks comprising: a navigator component stored on one or more computer storage devices and configured to implement computer executable instructions to provide a plurality of different interface displays for a plurality of different navigation categories comprising one or more of customer, company, vendor, employee, banking, and report categories, and wherein each navigation category includes a category specific set of tasks or functions for the navigation category, a list order for the category specific set of tasks or functions, and a hierarchical order for the category specific set of tasks or functions stored on the one or more computer storage devices; and wherein the navigator component is configured to provide, for a computer display device, the plurality of different interface displays for the plurality of navigation categories using the category specific set of tasks or functions, the list order for the category specific set of tasks or functions, and the hierarchical order for the category specific set of tasks or functions for the plurality of navigation categories, wherein the navigator component is configured to provide: a first display segment including a plurality of user selectable navigation category icons to select one navigation category of the plurality of different navigation categories; a second display segment including one of a plurality of different flow chart views corresponding to the selected navigation category, wherein the plurality of different flow chart views each include a plurality of actuable task icons corresponding to the category specific set of tasks or functions for a particular one of the plurality of navigation categories, the plurality of actuable task icons including an associated picture or symbol to denote a corresponding task or function, and wherein in each of the plurality of different flow chart views the plurality of actuable task icons are arranged in the hierarchical order for the category specific set of tasks or functions corresponding to the particular navigation category; and a switch view function including an actuable switch view icon to toggle between one of the plurality of different flow charts views corresponding to the selected navigation category and one of a plurality of different list views corresponding to the selected navigation category, wherein the plurality of different list views include the plurality of actuable task icons corresponding to the category specific set of tasks or functions for the plurality of navigation categories arranged in the list order for the category specific set of tasks or functions and having the same picture or symbol as the corresponding task or function in the plurality of different flow chart views.