Patent ID: 9098563
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: exporting a hierarchical object from a first electronic system to a second electronic system, wherein the hierarchical object is modifiable at each of the first and second electronic systems, and wherein a baseline version of the hierarchical object is created; comparing, by the first electronic system, a first version of the hierarchical object at the first electronic system against the baseline version, to form a first data structure identifying changes between the first version of the hierarchical object and the baseline version; receiving, by the first electronic system, a second data structure identifying changes between a second version of the hierarchical object at the second electronic system and the baseline version, wherein each of the first and second data structures includes comparison nodes that represent respective entities of the first and second versions and depict how each of the first and second versions of the hierarchical object has changed from the baseline version; and providing a visualization based on the first and second data structures, the visualization displaying the comparison nodes of the first and second data structures in respective first and second screens, wherein each of the comparison nodes of the first data structure has a corresponding comparison node in the second data structure, and wherein the comparison nodes of the first data structure are aligned with corresponding comparison nodes of the second data structure.