Patent ID: 7219307

Claim:
A method for graphically representing interactions of three or more entities who are members of an organization, wherein each entity is a person or a group of persons and wherein at least two entities directly interact with multiple entities within said organization and/or persons who are not members of said organization and wherein the environment of each organization member entity comprises at least one entity, which comprises: (a) determining a connectivity measure for each of said member entities wherein said connectivity measure comprises means for measuring the strength by which each entity is connected to its environment (b) determining a diversity measure for each of said member entities wherein said diversity measure comprises means for measuring the diversity of said entities in their interactions and their connections with their environment; (c) wherein said connectivity measure and said diversity measure each employs a recursive mathematical algorithm that employs a decay factor to account for the effects of indirect interactions among entities; (d) providing a graphical object corresponding to each of said member entities and each person within said entities; (e) generating a graphical object corresponding to each member entity and each person within said entity (f) varying graphical properties of said graphical objects to correspond to the connectivity measure and the diversity measure; (g) displaying said graphical objects and interactions on a display screen whereby the interactions between the individual member entities and persons represented by said graphical objects are displayed.