Patent ID: 8019786

Claim:
A method for creating a highly connected network of nodes indicative of computer-readable data, including the steps of: capturing data contained in at least one legacy database; structuring the captured data as a set of linked nodes, wherein each of the nodes includes at least one link to another one of the nodes, and the set of linked nodes is structured such that when one of the nodes is designated as a point of view, and values are calculated for a set of paths from the point of view to other ones of the nodes based on parameters in said other ones of the nodes and links between nodes along each of the paths, representations of the nodes determined using said values can be displayed as a sea of node representations viewed from said point of view, where the calculated values are represented by qualities such as position and size, and the parameters include those such as link distance, connection strength, type, and magnitude; designating one of the nodes as the point of view; and displaying said representations of the nodes as said sea of node representations, viewed from said point of view, wherein said sea of node representations includes virtual reality renderings.