Patent Document ID: 20090322758
Application ID: 12494084
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for visualizing relationships between objects, comprising the steps of: receiving, by a computer, a request to generate a graph that displays at least two relationships between at least two objects; retrieving, by a computer, the at least two objects from a computer-readable storage medium; transforming, by the computer, the objects into nodes; transforming, by the computer, a first of the relationships connecting two of the nodes into a first edge; labeling, by the computer, the first edge with a relationship type of the first relationship; transforming, by the computer, a second of the relationships connecting two of the nodes into a second edge; labeling, by the computer, the second edge with a relationship type of the second relationship; collapsing, by the computer, the first and second edges onto a single line; and applying, by the computer, a label to the single line for each edge that was collapsed onto the single line.