Patent ID: 7609267

Claim:
A display system for placing thematically-related clusters into a display, comprising: a placement module to group stored clusters sharing a common theme comprising shared concepts and terms, comprising: a list building submodule to select one of the stored clusters and to determine an anchor point located on an open edge of the selected cluster and at an intersection of a vector defined from a center of the selected cluster; and a cluster placement submodule to select a further stored cluster sharing the common theme with the selected cluster and to form the grouped clusters by placing a center of the further selected cluster on the vector outside of the anchor point and adjacent to the selected cluster to limit overlap of the selected cluster and the further selected cluster and by placing one or more of the remaining stored clusters sharing the common theme along the vector and adjacent to a previously placed cluster having an anchor point, each placed remaining cluster having a center originating on the vector outside of the anchor point of the previously placed cluster; a display module to display the grouped clusters; and a display processor within the display system to execute the modules.