Patent ID: 8280923
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of simplifying a tree-view display of a mapping between a first schema and a second schema, comprising: receiving, at a program on a computing device, a selection of a particular object that graphically represents a schema element that is in the first schema of the tree-view display; evaluating, via a program on a computing device, a plurality of objects graphically representing schema elements in a mapping between the first schema and the second schema to identify a non-coalesced object; determining, via the program on the computing device, whether the non-coalesced object is linked to any objects of the first schema or the second schema; when the non-coalesced object is not linked to any objects of the first schema or the second schema, modifying the tree-view display via the computing device by automatically coalescing the non-coalesced object and one or more descendent objects of the non-coalesced object into coalesced objects that are hidden from a viewable area of the tree-view display, the coalescing rearranges the tree-view display so that the particular object that is selected is automatically moved from an initial position in the tree-view display to a centrally located position in the tree-view display; and displaying a pop up presentation of the non-coalesced object and the one or more descendent objects when a pointer is positioned over a graphical icon that identifies a location of the coalesced objects in the tree-view display.