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US 7,120,870 B1Granted
Method, system, and program for presenting data in a limited display area
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorLee Evan Nakamura
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for displaying data on a display monitor under control of a computer. A first portion of a field of data and a graphical element indicating that there is a second portion of the field of data are displayed within a display area of a page, such as an HTML page. The page is enabled to selectively present the first and second portions of the field of data in response to user input.
Claims18
A method for displaying data on a display monitor under control of a computer, comprising:
- receiving a user request including a search criteria;
- querying a database on the search criteria to access data records satisfying the search criteria, wherein each accessed data record includes the field of data, wherein there is a display area for each record;
- retrieving one or more records matching the search criteria, wherein each record includes at least one field of data;
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- when a field of data includes a separator indicating that there are multiple values for the field,
- displaying in a page a first portion of the field of data and a graphical element indicating that there is a second portion of the field of data within a display area of the page, further comprising displaying in the display area for each record the at least first portion of the field of data from each accessed data record, wherein the page is enabled to selectively present the first and second portion of the field for the record in response to user input;
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- enabling the page to selectively present the first and second portions of the field of data in response to user input passing over the graphical element, wherein displaying the first portion in the display area comprises displaying a first value in the data field, and wherein presenting the first and second portions in response to user input comprise displaying all the values from the data field.
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A system for displaying data, comprising:
- a computer;
- a display monitor under control of the computer;
- means for receiving a user request including a search criteria;
- means for querying a database on the search criteria to access data records satisfying the search criteria, wherein each accessed data record includes the field of data, wherein there is a display area for each record;
- means for retrieving one or more records matching the search criteria, wherein each record includes at least one field of data;
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- when a field of data includes a separator indicating that there are multiple values for the field,
- means for displaying in a page on the display monitor a first portion of the field of data and a graphical element indicating that there is a second portion of the field of data within a display area of the page, further comprising means for displaying in the display area for each record the at least first portion of the field of data from each accessed data record, wherein the page is enabled to selectively present the first and second portion of the field for the record in response to user input;
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- means for enabling the page to selectively display on the monitor the first and second portions of the field of data in response to user input passing over the graphical element wherein the means for displaying the first portion in the display area comprises displaying a first value in the data field, and wherein presenting the first and second portions in response to user input comprise displaying all the values from the data field
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An article of manufacture for displaying data on a display monitor under control of a computer, the article of manufacture comprising a computer readable storage medium including at least one computer program embedded therein that is capable of causing the computer to perform:
- receiving a user request including the search criteria;
- querying a database on the search criteria to access data records satisfying the search criteria, wherein each accessed data record includes the field of data, wherein there is a display area for each record;
- retrieving one or more records matching the search criteria, wherein each record includes at least one field of data;
- when a field of data includes a separator indicating that there are multiple values for the field,
- displaying in a page a first portion of the field of data and a graphical element indicating that there is a second portion of the field of data within a display area of the page, further comprising displaying in the display area for each record the at least first portion of the field of data from each accessed data record, wherein the page is enabled to selectively present the first and second portion of the field for the record in response to user input;
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- enabling the page to selectively present the first and second portions of the field of data in response to user input passing over the graphical element, wherein displaying the first portion in the display area comprises displaying a first value in the data field, and wherein presenting the first and second portions in response to user input comprise displaying all the values from the data field.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.