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Abstract

An electronic progress scoring mechanism or indicator visually informs the user of how much of a task is complete and what is the nature or direction of the progress of task completion (positive or negative). A goal scoring software provides a scale and indicator based display for a task whose progress is to be monitored. The indicator can slide over the scale to indicate the most recent status of the task. A bi-directional reference pointer is displayed adjacent to the scale to provide a visual cue as to whether the most recent status indicates an upward (e.g. 'better') or downward (e.g. 'worse') progress from the immediately preceding status. An overlayed display window may also be provided adjacent to the sliding indicator to textually display the two most recent scores of progress and the relationship between them (i.e., whether there is a positive or negative movement from an earlier score to the most recent score). The task status indicator display can provide significantly more information on the progress of a task in an intuitive, but non-intrusive (non-distracting) manner. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.

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