Patent ID: 8341540

Claim:
A system for graphically representing user behavior while users are accessing files from a network resource, the system comprising: a data source that identifies files accessed by users from the network resource and times at which the files were accessed by said users, the identified files organized into a hierarchy having a plurality of nodes, each node representing a category of one or more identified files; and a computing device that executes: a first processing component operative to generate a path record for each user using the identification of files and times identified by the data source, the path record identifying the user, each file accessed by the user from the network resource, and the time at which each file was accessed by the user from the network resource; and a second processing component operative to generate a graphical representation based on the path records of the users for display, the graphical representation comprising: a user indicium representing at least one individual user; a first node indicium representing a first node of files in the hierarchy; a second node indicium representing a second node of files in the hierarchy; and the user indicium graphically migrating from the first node indicium to the second node indicium to graphically represent the transition of the at least one individual user from a file from the first node to a file from the second node between the time at which the file from the first node was accessed by the at least one individual user and the time at which the file from the second node was accessed by the at least one individual user; wherein the second processing component is further operative, following selection of the first node indicium, to generate a graphical representation comprising a sub-node indicium for each of two or more files associated with the node represented by the first node indicium, wherein the user indicium graphically migrates among the sub-node indicium for each of the two or more files associated with the node represented by the first node indicium, to graphically represent a transition of the at least one individual user among the two or more files.