Patent ID: 8495521

Claim:
A method of generating a relationship map, comprising: inputting, to an information handling system (IHS), relationship data including a plurality of nodes that include node data and that together form the relationship map; inputting, to the IHS, a formula to be associated with a particular node of the plurality of nodes; inputting, to the IHS, range information for the formula associated with the particular node, the range information specifying a range of nodes to which the formula associated with the particular node should be applied, wherein the range information includes a follow soft links descriptor; extracting the node data from the nodes that the range information specifies; applying, by the IHS, the formula associated with the particular node to node data derived from the range of nodes to determine result information for the particular node, wherein the range information includes a rootward direction descriptor and the follow soft links descriptor; and displaying, by the IHS on a display, the relationship map including the particular node updated with the result information.