Patent ID: 8069186

Claim:
A computer implemented relationship processing system for providing context associations between computer objects comprising the following computer executable components: an association system that determines a degree of a strength of association between at least a pair of computer objects and metadata obtained by a data collection system; a chunking system that uses the degree of the strength of association determined by the association system for a set of objects and groups them into a number of sub-groups; a history manager that provides in a tree structure a representation of user activity on a user-operated computer, an application history and an external history, the history manager further comprising an ability to conduct a plurality of features operations on the representation activity, the application history and the external data history; an importance calculator that determines an importance ranking between a target computer object and one or more other computer objects; and a generating component to generate a group view visualization that includes the set of objects arranged such that a distance from a particular object of the set of objects to a user selected object is inversely proportional to the strength of association between the particular object and the user selected object.