Patent ID: 7221357

Claim:
A method for representing and selecting installed components and operating assemblies of a vehicle, comprising: a) displaying representational objects respectively representing said installed components and operating assemblies; b) superimposing on said displayed representational objects a matrix of m rows and n columns defining respective matrix fields at intersections of said rows and columns, wherein each respective one of said representational objects completely or partially occupies one or more of said matrix fields; and c) selecting one or more selected ones of said installed components and operating assemblies by selecting one or more of said matrix fields that are completely or partially occupied by one or more of said representational objects respectively representing said one or more selected ones of said installed components and operating assemblies, comprising selecting a first group of said representational objects by twice carrying out the same selection operation to thereby respectively select two of said matrix fields that define two diagonally opposite corners of a rectangular region of said matrix, whereby said rectangular region is thereby selected.