Patent ID: 7188308
Filing Date: 2007-03-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for generating an application user interface window used by an executing application program on a computer permitting a user to explore at least a portion of a database or a plurality of related databases, the database(s) containing at least a plurality of nodes represented by database records and a plurality of directional references represented by database records forming interrelations between the nodes, the interface window comprising: at least one display region visualizing and arranging in the vicinity of a first node shown in the display region a first set of at least two nodes having references of a first direction with respect to said first node; simultaneously visualizing and arranging in the vicinity of at least one second node of the first set of nodes at least a third node having references with respect to said second node; simultaneously visualizing and arranging in the vicinity of said first node a second separate set of at least two nodes having references of a direction opposite to said first direction with respect to said first node; and simultaneously visualizing and arranging in the vicinity of at least one fourth node of the second set of nodes at least a fifth separate node having references with respect to said fourth node, the fifth node being the same node as the third node so that visualization of both the third and fifth separate nodes occurs spaced-apart at two different visual locations on the at least one display region.