Patent ID: 7765220

Claim:
A method for providing data relevance filtering, the method comprising: receiving relevance information corresponding to data, the relevance information comprising a relevance threshold, wherein receiving the relevance information comprises receiving the relevance information from at least one user input, the at least one user input indicating to include negative values in the data relevance filtering; creating a filter based upon the received relevance information; querying the data using the created filter to create a result, the result being limited by the relevance threshold and including a subset of a plurality of items included in the data, the relevance threshold being configured to indicate a percentage of a sum of the plurality of items that corresponds to the subset of the plurality of items; combining negative items associated with the negative values included in the result into a single item representing the combined negative items, the combined negative items corresponding to irrelevant items within the result; and displaying the result of the data query, wherein displaying the result comprises displaying the result comprising: a first portion corresponding to the subset of the plurality of items, a second portion indicting a first number of items in the plurality of items minus a second number of items in the subset of the plurality of items, and a third portion corresponding to negative items within the plurality of items corresponding to the threshold.