Pie chart based information management system

A computer system comprising:

• a display system;
• and
• a pie chart system in communication with the display system, wherein the pie chart system displays pie charts in a graphical user interface in the display system, wherein the pie charts have sections that represent pieces of information, and each of the pie charts represents a type of the information;
• receives a user input selecting a portion of the sections from the pie charts displayed in the graphical user interface;
• displays the pie charts and a new pie chart in the graphical user interface, the new pie chart using the portion of the sections selected by the user input, wherein the new pie chart has new sections representing selected pieces of the information corresponding to the portion of the sections but does not include sections representing unselected pieces of the information corresponding to an unselected portion of the sections, wherein the new sections have a number of sizes based on a policy, and wherein the number of sizes for the new sections indicates relative values of the pieces of the information with respect to each other in the new pie chart, and wherein the new pie chart enables visually accessing the information;
• and displays a graphical handle associated with the new section, wherein the graphical handle includes an indicator that indicates whether changes to a size of the section are allowed, wherein the indicator is at least one of a color shown on the graphical handle, a pattern shown on the graphical handle, and an icon displayed in association with the graphical handle;
• and changes a size of the new sections in the new pie chart when changes to a size of the section are allowed and additional user input is received that changes the size of the new sections in the new pie chart.

A computer program product for visually accessing information, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage media;
• first program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for displaying pie charts in a graphical user interface in a display system, wherein the pie charts have sections that represent pieces of information and each of the pie charts represents a type of the information;
• second program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for receiving a user input selecting a portion of sections from the pie charts displayed in the graphical user interface;
• third program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for displaying the pie charts and a new pie chart in the graphical user interface, the new pie chart using the portion of the sections selected by the user input, wherein the new pie chart has new sections representing selected pieces of the information corresponding to the portion of the sections but does not include sections representing unselected pieces of the information corresponding to an unselected portion of the sections, wherein the new sections have a number of sizes based on a policy, wherein the number of sizes for the new sections indicates relative values of the pieces of the information with respect to each other in the new pie chart, and wherein the new pie chart enables visually accessing the information;
• fourth program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for displaying a graphical handle associated with the new section, wherein graphical handle includes an indicator that indicates whether changes to a size of the section are allowed, wherein the indicator is at least one of a color shown on the graphical handle, a pattern shown on the graphical handle, and an icon displayed in association with the graphical handle;
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• fifth program code, stored on the computer readable storage media, for changing a size of the new sections in the new pie chart when changes to a size of the section are allowed and additional user input is received that changes the size of the new sections in the new pie chart.