Patent ID: 7672950
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a network graphical representation of two or more database records, comprising: selecting the two or more database records according to one or more descriptive criteria, wherein each of the two or more database records are members of a common record class; identifying two or more common attributes of the database records according to requirements provided by a user, associating a first set of network nodes to instances of a first one of the common attributes from the database records, and associating a second set of network nodes to instances of a second one of the common attributes from the database records, wherein at least one set of network nodes are meta-nodes; connecting one or more members of the first set of network nodes to one or more members of the second set of network nodes with network links that designate associations between the network nodes, to form a first network graphical representation; and iteratively executing the identifying and connecting steps while modifying the one or more descriptive criteria, to change and to select two or more database records, thereby presenting one or more levels below at least one of the meta-nodes, or one or more levels above at least one of the meta-nodes.