Patent ID: 6937238

Claim:
A web transaction visualization system comprising at least one web transaction visualization (WTV) processor adapted to automatically extract massive amounts of web transaction data from at least one data source for visual classification based on at least one aggregate transaction metric and to display the classified web transaction data interactively in three dimensions without overlapping, wherein said at least one WTV processor comprises: (a) a first module adapted to map data items extracted from said at least one data source onto a spherical surface and compute the similarity values between said spherically mapped data items based on said at least one aggregate transaction metric, said spherically mapped data items forming a data item set; (b) a second module adapted to correlate the computed similarity values for said spherically mapped data items with corresponding relative distances between data items on a three-dimensional graph in a series of computational iterations until said data item set is relaxed; and (c) a third module adapted to group said relaxed data item set into categories according to similarity value and encapsulate sub-groups of substantially related data items for web transaction visualization on said three-dimensional graph.