Patent ID: 9280574
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising a computing device performing the steps of: visually depicting a simplified rendition of a complex graph, said complex graph comprising a plurality of data nodes representing one or more data sets and one or more data objects, wherein each data set includes zero or more data objects and zero or more other data sets; determining, from the plurality of data nodes in the complex graph, at least one data node of interest to a user, wherein each data node of interest is included in and thus defined as being hierarchically subordinate to one or more data sets; visually depicting in the simplified rendition each data node of interest as a primary node in a specific area of a user display designated to depict primary nodes; visually depicting in the simplified rendition at least one secondary node that is visually depicted in the simplified rendition as being hierarchically subordinate to a primary node, but is a data set that in the complex graph includes and is thus defined as being hierarchically superior to the corresponding data node of interest; and visually depicting in the simplified rendition at least one edge between a primary node and a secondary node; wherein: visually depicted secondary nodes are not contained within the specific area designated to depict primary nodes; whereby: the simplified rendition comprises a new and inverted node hierarchy compared with the node hierarchy of the complex graph.