Patent ID: 7933981

Claim:
A method of representing connectivity within a network comprising: identifying nodes of the network; selectively reducing the number of connections to be represented among the nodes on a basis of lessening complexity of a graphical representation of the network, the selective reduction being such that information representing operations within the network is reduced without a reduction in such operations, the selective reduction including: (a) identifying a pair of the nodes of the network, wherein the pair of nodes includes a primary node and a secondary node, the primary node and the secondary node being related to each other; (b) identifying a third node that is connected both to the primary node and the secondary node; (c) selecting the connection between the secondary node and the third node as a connection to remain unrepresented within the graphical representation, so as to achieve the lessening of complexity in the graphical representation by removing representation of links between the secondary node and the third node; and depicting, by a microprocessor, the graphical representation of the network, including depicting the nodes of the network and depicting the reduced number of connections among the nodes.