Patent Document ID: 20100250342
Application ID: 12415566
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A machine-implemented method for processing digital data, wherein said digital data is used to identify a particular tool for use in performing a particular task, comprising: storing, on a machine-readable medium, for each of a plurality of tools, a plurality of characteristic values, wherein each of the plurality of characteristic values identifies a number that reflects how much the tool associated with the characteristic value supports a particular characteristic of a plurality of characteristics; computing a score for each of said plurality of tools, wherein the score for each of said plurality of tools is the sum of the characteristic values, of said plurality of characteristic values, which are associated with each tool; and transmitting, to a client having a user interface, display data that describes how to render, on said user interface, a pictorial representation of the scores associated with each of said plurality of tools, wherein the pictorial representation depicts a relative measure of how appropriate each of said plurality of tools is for said particular task.