Patent ID: 7278097

Claim:
A spatial data relationship displaying method comprising: acquiring server definition data representing an outline of features of data having a hierarchical structure generated by a server; acquiring application definition data representing an outline of features of data having a hierarchical structure generated by an application which manipulates objects including manipulating spatial relationships between the objects; acquiring server object property structure data which corresponds to the server and application object property structure data which corresponds to the application; generating a relationship between an object of a first image as defined by the server and an object of a second image as defined by the application based on the server definition data, the application definition data, the object property structure data and thesaurus data; displaying object hierarchical structure data of the server, and object hierarchical structure data of the application, with the generated relationship; graphically indicating on a display the generated relationship between said object of the first image as defined by the server and said object of the second image as defined by the application; displaying the object property structure data of an object pointed to by indication means on the display; and modifying and deciding the relationship between the objects based on a confirmation operation input from the indication means.