Patent ID: 8327292
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for displaying related objects on a user interface, comprising: processing a plurality of objects observed to have participated in at least one message flow, the objects comprising nodes and links, to determine each of a plurality of related object groupings, comprising: for each of the determined related object groupings, persisting a definition of the related object grouping to persistent storage, the definition identifying each of the nodes and each of the links in the grouping, and for each of the nodes and each of the links in the grouping, persisting the assigned unique index value in the definition in association therewith; and responsive to a subsequent request to display ones of the objects on the user interface, using the assigned index values associated with the ones of the objects to group the ones of the objects for the display, comprising grouping the ones of the objects having an identical assigned index value into corresponding related object groupings and displaying the corresponding related object groupings on the user interface in an order according to the assigned index value that is associated with the objects in each of the corresponding related object groupings.