Patent ID: 7721311

Claim:
A processor-implemented method for displaying a plurality of objects on a display device, each of the objects comprising at least a first attribute and a second attribute, said method comprising the steps of: (a) setting a range of first attributes to be displayed on the display device; (b) displaying on the display device a set of the plurality of objects which have the same second attribute on a radial line of an ellipse based on a comparison between the range and the first attribute of one or more of the set of objects; and (c) replacing the set of objects displayed on a radial line with a further set of objects displayed on an adjacent radial line in response to a viewer command, wherein the adjacent radial line is either clockwise or counter-clockwise adjacent depending on the sense of the viewer command, and wherein if the adjacent radial line is void of objects, the set of objects displayed on the radial line is replaced by a further set of the plurality of objects displayed on a symmetrically opposite radial line.