Patent ID: 7624354

Claim:
A display management system, operating on a computer system having a display device, a memory, a graphics display system, and an input device having a plurality of keys for inputting data to the computer system, for efficiently managing displayable content on the computer system, wherein the display management system is configured such that: the display management system defines a plurality of content groups; groups of display content are associated with one of a plurality of content groups; one of the plurality of content groups is defined as a working group; upon detecting a display management trigger event, the display management system: displays a plurality of representative views on the display on the display device in a grid arrangement, wherein each representative view corresponds to a particular content group, comprises all display content associated with the particular content group and wherein each representative view is associated with a key on the input device; in an event a particular display content is disassociated from all content groups: the particular display content is associated with the working group by default; in an event a particular display content associated with a particular content group other than the working group and the display content is retrieved into the working group: the particular display content is displayed simultaneously using the working group and the content group, the particular display content represented in a modified format, the modified format comprising one or more modifications selected from a list, the list comprising: a dashed border; and a grayed out appearance; obtains a display management action event identifying a management action to be taken by the content management system; obtains a keypress input from the input device; identifies a content group corresponding to the keypress input; and carries out the identified management action on the identified content group using the working group.