Patent ID: 8768804

Claim:
A method by a computer of generating a display, displaying data representing a plurality of financial transactions, the method comprising: determining, by the computer, a hierarchy having a tree structure wherein leaf nodes in the lowest level of the hierarchy correspond to sources and destinations associated with financial transactions to be represented; associating, by the computer, elements of the hierarchy with co-ordinates on a display screen; and representing, by the computer, each of the plurality of financial transactions by: determining for each transaction a first set of control co-ordinates comprising the co-ordinates associated with elements in a path in the tree structure connecting a source and a destination associated with a financial transaction via a closest common parent in the hierarchy common to the source and destination; determining for each transaction a second set of control co-ordinates for drawing a straight line between co-ordinates associated with the source and destination associated with the financial transaction; calculating as a set of control co-ordinates for representing a transaction weighted averages of corresponding co-ordinates in the first and second set, weighted by a bundling factor; and representing each of the financial transactions as a line drawn utilizing the calculated control co-ordinates for each transaction.