Patent ID: 8312366

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for displaying a summary table having a plurality of adjacent header areas, the method comprising: receiving a selection of one or more data fields associated with a first row header area; receiving a selection of one or more data fields associated with a second row header area, the selection of the one or more data fields associated with the second row header area having at least one data field different from the selection of the one or more data fields associated with the first row header area; reading data from a data source containing values for the one or more data fields associated with the first row header area and the one or more data fields associated with the second row header area; transforming the data from the data source to summary level data for rendering the summary table; and rendering to a display device the first row header area and the second row header area in the summary table, the first row header area and the second row header area comprising distinct sets of rows labeled with values from the associated selection of one or more data fields and the first row header area and the second row header area displayed substantially vertically adjacent to each other in the summary table.