Patent ID: 8683389

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for organizing and displaying a plurality of data objects including information on a display screen, the method comprising: organizing the plurality of data objects according to at least one relatedness measure between respective pairs of the plurality of data objects; displaying on a first portion of the display screen, the plurality of data objects as a network display, the network display including interactive markers corresponding to the plurality of data objects; displaying on the first portion of the display screen an indication of a source of a selected data object in response to querying a corresponding interactive marker; highlighting a subset of the plurality of data objects in response to a first selection of an interactive marker representing at least one of the plurality of data objects; displaying simultaneously, on a second portion of the display screen, a subset of information included in at least one data object in the subset of the plurality of data objects and indicia relating the information included in at least one data object in the subset of the plurality of data objects to corresponding interactive markers; highlighting and displaying a second subset of the information included in at least one data object in a second subset of the plurality of data objects in response to a second selection of a second interactive marker representing a different one of the plurality of data objects; constructing feature vectors from the plurality of data objects; creating a proximity metric from the feature vectors; clustering the data objects by projecting the data base and proximities onto a network using multivariate statistical techniques such that similar objects are in closer proximity than dissimilar objects; mapping clustered data objects onto a lower dimensional shape; and wherein the data objects are split to any scale of sub objects for which feature vectors are created, and wherein scale refers to the size of components of the data objects.