Patent Document ID: 9495777
Application ID: 13761614
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for illustrating enterprise data, the method comprising: accessing data from an enterprise application, wherein the data is organized into objects; rendering a visualization defined by a rectangular area having a fixed width dimension and variable height dimension, wherein the rendering includes automatically displaying nodes that each represent one of the objects and wherein a particular node is at a first position in the visualization; receiving a user specified node grouping criteria, wherein the user specified node grouping criteria is a first criterion; categorizing the objects based on the first criterion, resulting in groups of categorized objects in response thereto; displaying representations of the categorized objects as nodes of the visualization such that each node is positioned in a section of the visualization according to a group associated with the node, resulting in sections of nodes corresponding to the groups, wherein the displaying includes automatically reformatting the particular node from the first position to a second position in the visualization based on the user specified node grouping criteria; arranging the nodes within each of the sections such that a shape of each of the sections is adjusted closest to a square shape that leaves no whitespace within each of the sections; arranging the sections within the visualization to reduce formation of whitespace between the sections and to fit the sections within the fixed width of the visualization while allowing changes to a height of the visualization; and adjusting a luminance of each node based on a second criterion.