Patent ID: 6985898

Claim:
A computer-implemented visualization model of similarity relationships between documents comprising: performing a similarity search in a database based on at least one reference attribute of at least one reference document to find at least one target document with at least one target attribute having a similarity relationship to the at least one reference attribute; creating unique visualization model nodes corresponding to the at least one reference document and the at least one target document; assigning properties to the unique visualization model nodes including form item, link count, group ID, hidden count, locked, caption, color, hierarchical level, selected and ID; creating unique visualization model edges corresponding to the similarity relationships between the at least one reference document and the at least one target document; assigning properties to the unique visualization model edges including from node, from node ID, to node, to node ID, query list, caption, color, visible, selected and ID; displaying the unique visualization model nodes and the unique visualization model edges on a graphical user interface; and indicating a degree of similarity between the displayed unique visualization model nodes by the displayed unique visualization model edges.