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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2003
Johannes L. Marais, Mountain View, CA (US);
Johannes L. Marais, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vendavo, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system. The computer program displays all the information that is conventionally displayed in a plurality of pie charts in a single novel chart form. When applicable, this novel chart form can also display positively contributing components and negatively contributing components in the same chart. The chart comprises a plurality of bars and each bar in the plurality of bars comprises a plurality of linearly ordered components. For each bar in the chart, the program includes instructions for patterning each component in the bar in a way that visually differentiates it from components in the bar that border the component.