Patent ID: 8566180

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of representing activity in an online store comprising: receiving, by a processor, an indication that a first visitor is accessing a first region of a website that corresponds to a first region of the online store; simultaneously displaying to the first visitor: a graphical representation that includes a depiction of the first region of the online store as an element of a web page associated with the first region, and a depiction of an additional region of the online store including a graphical representation of activities of one or more other visitors to the online store, wherein the graphical representation of the activities of the one or more other visitors includes an indication of what items the one or more other visitors are viewing; and generating, by a processor in response to a selection of a portion of the graphical representation associated with one of the first region and the additional region of the online store, graphical representations of a plurality of subsections associated with the selected region, the plurality of subsections including a graphical representation of the activities of one or more other visitors to the subsections.