Patent ID: 7143392

Claim:
A method for displaying computer system runtime information, comprising the steps of: displaying a plurality of runtime information items in a first hyperbolic tree as a plurality of first nodes; assigning a unique identifier for each of said plurality of first nodes displayed in said first hyperbolic tree; showing one or more links between first nodes in said first hyperbolic tree, with said one or more links representing node causal relationships; moving a particular one of said first nodes of said first hyperbolic tree to a center node position in said first hyperbolic tree upon a user input selecting said particular first node; and generating a second hyperbolic tree that includes a plurality of second nodes; assigning a unique identifier for each of said plurality of second nodes; generating a linking graph as a third hyperbolic tree that links said first hyperbolic tree and said second hyperbolic tree, said third hyperbolic tree includes a plurality of third nodes, said step of generating includes, at least one of said third nodes inheriting the unique identifier assigned to one of said first nodes in said first hyperbolic tree to correspond with the one first node; at least another one of the third nodes inheriting the unique identifier assigned to one of the second nodes in the second hyperbolic tree to correspond with the one second node; and generating the third hyperbolic tree to show a link between the at least one third node and the at least another third node, with link representing a node causal relationship based on the inherited unique identifiers to link the first hyperbolic tree with the second hyperbolic tree.