Patent ID: 7529648

Claim:
A method for automatically generating a subset of components from a plurality of components, comprising: receiving a request to generate a subset of components; accessing connectivity data comprising information regarding at least the plurality of components and connections among the plurality of components; automatically selecting portions of the connectivity data that satisfy the request to generate the subset of components, wherein automatically selecting portions of the connectivity data comprises: for an initial component in the subset of components, identifying another component connected to the initial component based upon the connectivity data; adding the other component to the subset of components; and repeating the identifying and adding steps with the other component being the initial component; generating a diagram based upon the automatically selected portions of the connectivity data of only the subset of components without other components from the plurality of components that are not included in the subset of components; and displaying the diagram of only the subset of components without other components from the plurality of components that are not included in the subset of components.