Patent Document ID: 9128994
Application ID: 13802739

Base Claim:
1. At a computer system, the computer system including a display device, a method for visually representing a query of multi-source data, the method comprising: accessing a data set, the data set including data combined from a plurality of different sources; supplementing presentation of data contained in a portion of the data set on the display device by using a visual cue to visually indicate any occurrences of a query term within the data contained in the portion of the data set on the display device, visually indicating occurrences of the query term highlighting the volume of the query term within the data contained in the portion of the data set; receiving a command to query a larger portion of the data set for the query term, the larger portion of the data set including the portion of the data set; determining that data contained in the data set is not to be displayed on the display device in response to the command; and presenting the visual cue in an arrangement of locations on the display device to visually indicate occurrences of the query term in the data contained in the larger portion of the data set, each location in the arrangement of locations indicating where the query term would have be presented on the display device had the data contained in the larger portion of the data set been presented at the display device, presenting the arrangement of locations permitting insight into the volume of the query term in the data contained in the larger portion of the data set without consuming presentation space on the display device to present the data contained in the larger portion of the data set.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual cue is color.