Patent ID: 8078980

Claim:
A computer-accessible memory medium comprising program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by a processor to implement: specifying a first communication functionality between nodes in a graphical program in response to user input defining a new communication functionality; creating a first wire appearance for representing the first communication functionality in response to user input defining the first wire appearance, wherein said creating comprises storing the first wire appearance to be subsequently used for a wire that is configured to implement the first communication functionality, wherein the first communication functionality comprises one or more of: timing; or data transfer, comprising one or more of: data transfer semantics, a data transfer mechanism, or a data transfer medium, and subsequently displaying a first wire in a first graphical program, wherein the first wire is configured to implement the specified communication functionality, wherein the first wire is displayed with the first wire appearance, and wherein the first wire appearance visually denotes the specified communication functionality of the wire.