Patent Document ID: 8667420
Application ID: 12340774
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for displaying a hierarchical chart comprising the steps of: displaying at least a portion of a hierarchical chart on a display, with a primary entity being displayed in a center region of the display, with one or more peers to the primary entity being displayed along a horizontal axis in comparison to the primary entity, each of the one or more peers being associated with an image, the image of each of the one or more peers being displayed with a top of the image oriented up, each of the one or more peers being associated with text, each of the individual characters of the text being displayed with the top of the individual characters oriented to a side, with one or more parents to the primary entity being displayed above the primary entity, and with one or more children to the primary entity being displayed beneath the primary entity; receiving a selection of a different entity on the hierarchical chart than the primary entity, the different entity being positioned on a first axis relative to the primary entity; and transitioning to the different entity to make the different entity become the primary entity that is displayed in the center region, transitioning including: fading out a first set of one or more entities associated with the primary entity and positioned on a second axis relative to the primary entity, the second axis being orthogonal to the first axis, repositioning the different entity to the center region of the screen, repositioning the different entity to the center region of the screen including displaying the different entity at points between a first position of the different entity when the different entity is selected and the center region of the screen, fading in a second set of one or more entities associated with the different entity and positioned on the second axis relative to the different entity, and when the different entity is one of the one or more peers, redisplaying each of the individual characters of the text associated with the different entity with the top of the individual characters oriented up.