Method and Apparatus for Displaying Data Stored in Linked Nodes

• US 20120005239A1
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Nevin, Rocky Harry W. III
• Granted Patent: US 8,799,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/798
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2425 Iterative querying; Query formulation based on the results of a preceding query
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/20 Drawing from basic elements, e.g. lines or circles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A computer implemented method of storing, manipulating, assessing, and displaying data and its relationships, and a computer system (with memory) programmed to implement such method. The data is stored into nodes, and visualized as a sea of linked nodes.

Claims

1-40. -40. (canceled)

41. A method for creating a highly connected network of nodes indicative of computer-readable data, including the steps of:

capturing data contained in at least one legacy database; and

structuring the captured data as a set of linked nodes, wherein each of the nodes includes at least one link to another one of the nodes, and the set of linked nodes is structured such that when one of the nodes is designated as a point of view, representations of the nodes can be displayed as a sea of node representations, viewed from said point of view.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the nodes have identical structure but at least some of the nodes have different content.

43. A method for creating a highly connected network of nodes indicative of computer-readable data, including the steps of:

capturing data contained in at least one legacy database;

structuring the captured data as a set of linked nodes, wherein each of the nodes includes at least one link to another one of the nodes, and the set of linked nodes is structured such that when one of the nodes is designated as a point of view, representations of the nodes can be displayed as a sea of node representations;

designating one of the nodes as the point of view; and

displaying said representations of the nodes as said sea of node representations, viewed from said point of view.