Abstract: A system and method for multiple factor sorting and a user interface thereof are described. The system allows a user to quickly articulate and convey to a computing system, through the use of multiple variably-weighted factors, the nuance of the user's thought process as it relates to retrieving information or making a decision. When a person retrieves information and desires to sort into an order a plurality of items and where the user desires to sort the order of items based on a multiplicity of factors, the system provides a graphical, modifiable representation of the factors that enables the user to temporarily interrelate and variably prioritize those factors by applying input to modify the graphical representation of the factors such that as the user increasingly prioritizes one factor, the remaining factor(s) are proportionately decreased in priority, such change(s) of prioritizations subsequently resulting in a reordering of the items to reflect the change(s).

Abstract: A system and method for multiple factor sorting and a user interface thereof are described. The system allows a user to quickly articulate and convey to a computing system, through the use of multiple variably-weighted factors, the nuance of the user's thought process as it relates to retrieving information or making a decision. When a person retrieves information and desires to sort into an order a plurality of items and where the user desires to sort the order of items based on a multiplicity of factors, the system provides a graphical, modifiable representation of the factors that enables the user to temporarily interrelate and variably prioritize those factors by applying input to modify the graphical representation of the factors such that as the user increasingly prioritizes one factor, the remaining factor(s) are proportionately decreased in priority, such change(s) of prioritizations subsequently resulting in a reordering of the items to reflect the change(s).

Abstract: An improved method of holding a key (20) in a keyway (31) includes the steps of: forming an elongated keyway in the member, the member having at least one sharp corner (34) facing into the keyway adjacent either end thereof; forming a key (20) to fit in the keyway, the key being so dimensioned, proportioned and configured that the part of the key immediately adjacent each sharp corner will be recessed with respect to the surface of the member at the corner; placing the key in the keyway; and plastically deforming portions (40) of the member at the sharp corners into the keyway so as to permanently hold the key in the keyway.