User interface to display tabular source data in a small screen display area

Abstract

A method is provided to display information on a display screen of an electronic device comprising: providing metadata in computer readable storage media that provide indicia of associations between respective subject identifiers and respective subject data items from different ones of multiple categories; and producing a plurality of screen displays that portray the subject identifiers and respective associated subject data items from respective ones of the multiple categories.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to computer user interfaces for electronic devices, and more particularly to user interfaces for navigating within large documents on electronic devices with smaller displays. Background technique [0002] Figures 1A-1B are spreadsheets that are too large to view all at once within the confines of a typical screen display ( Figure 1A1-Figure 1A2 ) and pivot table (pivot table) (Figure 1B 1- Figure 1B2 ) schematic diagram. A pivot table is a spreadsheet feature that allows data tables to be rearranged in many different ways for different views of the same data. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for spreadsheet or pivot table applications typically include vertical and horizontal scroll bars to enable horizontal and vertical navigation within the document. Because a spreadsheet or pivot table may be too large to display in its entirety on a computer screen display, the user scrolls horizontally or vertically to ...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] While existing user interfaces for documentation have been generally acceptable, their use has come with inadequacies

For example, there has been a need for improvements to techniques for navigating larger documents that cannot all fit within the display screen at once

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