US 7,030,889 B2Granted

Data display system, data display method, computer and computer program product

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSeiji Hamada, Isao Kadowaki

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Abstract

According to the data display method of the present invention, one or more parts of the data to be displayed in a display area are displayed in full, while the other parts of the data are displayed in predetermined abridged forms representing the parts of data that are not displayed (i.e. abridged data). When the predetermined abridged form representing the abridged data is selected, one or more parts of the data contents are fully displayed and the other parts are abridged. Further, when the data displayed in full is selected, an input operation for the data is initiated. In addition, the contents of the abridged data that are not displayed are not read from a database, and the first data row and the number of data rows in the abridged data group, are stored.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A computer system comprising:

a display device having a display area on a display screen thereof, wherein, out of target data to be displayed in said display area, one or multiple first data sets, the contents of which are actually displayed, and one or multiple first predetermined icons, which represent one or multiple first data groups of the target data other than said first data sets and the contents of which are not displayed, are presented in said display area;
and
by the operation of selecting at least one of said first predetermined icons, one or multiple second data sets, the contents of which are actually displayed, and one or multiple second predetermined icons, which represent one or multiple second data groups of the target data other than said first and second data sets and the contents of which are not displayed, are presented together with said first data sets in said display area;
wherein said first predetermined icons and said second predetermined icons are correlated with the first data rows and the number of data rows of said first data groups and said second data groups, respectively.

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A data display method, for displaying target data in a display area on the display screen of a computer system, comprising the steps of:

identifying first data sets, which are included in said target data to be displayed in said display area and the contents of which are actually displayed in said display area;
identifying first data groups, which are included in said target data other than said first data sets and the contents of which are not displayed in said display area;
reading said first data sets from a recording area wherein said target data is stored and displaying said first data sets in said display area;
presenting first predetermined icons representing said first data groups in said display area;
selecting at least one of said first predetermined icons;
identifying second data sets, which are included in said first data groups and the contents of which are actually displayed in said display area;
identifying second data groups, which are included in said first data groups other than said second data sets and the contents of which are not displayed in said display area;
reading said second data sets from said recording area where said target data is stored and displaying said second data sets in said display area;
and
presenting second predetermined icons that represent said second data groups in said display area.

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A data display system, for displaying target data in a display area on the display screen of a computer system, comprising:

means for identifying first data sets, which are included in said target data to be displayed in said display area and the contents of which are actually displayed in said display area;
means for identifying first data groups, which are included in said target data other than said first data sets and the contents of which are not displayed in said display area;
means for reading said first data sets from a recording area wherein said target data is stored, and means for displaying said first data sets in said display area;
means for presenting first predetermined icons representing said first data groups in said display area;
means for selecting at least one of said first predetermined icons;
means for identifying second data sets, which are included in said first data groups and the contents of which are actually displayed in said display area;
means for identifying second data groups, which are included in said first data groups other than said second data sets and the contents of which are not displayed in said display area;
means for reading said second data sets from said recording area where said target data is stored, and means for displaying said second data sets in said display area;
and
means for presenting second predetermined icons representing said second data groups in said display area.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.