Patent ID: 8368699

Claim:
A method for displaying on a display screen of a mobile device a bar chart representing a plurality of data points, the method comprising: displaying a first set of bars on the display screen, each bar representing one of the plurality of data points and having a first width and a variable height according to a value of the represented data point; displaying a second set of bars on the display screen, each bar representing one of the plurality of data points and having a second width and a variable height according to a value of the represented data point, the second width being greater than the first width; displaying a third set of bars on the display screen, each bar displayed between bars of the first set and bars of the second set and representing one of the plurality of data points, and each having a third width and a variable height according to a value of the represented data point, the third width being greater than the first width and less than the second width; and responsive to receiving a user input, altering the display of at least one of the bars in the third set to have the first width, and altering at least one of the bars in the second set to have the third width.