Patent ID: 8004525

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying a first plurality of interconnects that connect nodes of a process tree displayed in a multimedia application of a computer system, wherein each node represents a multimedia item or a function being performed on at least one multimedia item, wherein each interconnect connects a pair of nodes and represents a type of data being output from one node of the pair to another node of the pair, wherein the first plurality of interconnects comprises a subset comprising a second plurality of interconnects, each interconnect of the second plurality of interconnects indicating a direction of data output from the one node to the other node; and displaying each of the second plurality of interconnects as having a particular display appearance that indicates at least one characteristic of the type of data being output from the one node to the other node, wherein at least one interconnect of the second plurality of interconnects has at least two different display appearances comprising a color display appearance that indicates a first characteristic of the type of data and a line pattern display appearance that indicates a second characteristic of the type of data.