Patent ID: 8819592
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for enabling a computer user to view just a selected portion of a complex graph, said graph comprising a plurality of data set nodes, wherein each data set node includes zero or more data object nodes and zero or more other data set nodes, and every node in the complex graph that is not displayed in the selected portion is contained in at least one displayed data set node, the method comprising: determining a data set node of interest from among the plurality of data set nodes; visually depicting, in an available data nodes area of a user display, the data set node of interest as a primary node; visually depicting, within the available data nodes area, at least one additional data node that in the graph is included in the data set node represented by the primary node; receiving a first selection of a data node that is depicted within the available data nodes area; when the first selected node is a data object node, moving the first selected node from the available data nodes area to a separate selected nodes area within the user display; and when the first selected node is a data set node: