Patent ID: 8230350

Claim:
A computing device comprising: a display device; a processor communicatively coupled to the display; and a memory device communicatively coupled to the processor and having stored therein a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: display a graphical user interface on the display, the graphical user interface including a plurality of columns configured for displaying data messages therein, each message associated with a message source, each column associated with a source group comprising one or more message sources; receive stream data from a network, the stream data including a plurality of data messages; determine identification data associated with each of the data messages, the identification data including message sources associated with the data messages; for each data message, assign the data message to one or more of the plurality of columns, the assigned to column associated with a source group that includes a message source of the message; and display each of the plurality of data messages in its assigned column.