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Three dimensional graphical display of information

  • US 5,751,931 A
  • Filed: 04/18/1995
  • Issued: 05/12/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for representing information in a display in a computer system, said information describing entities and relationships between pairs of entities, said apparatus comprising:

  • means for displaying a surface representation on said display;

    means responsive to said information for displaying a plurality of entity representations on said display, each of said entity representations corresponding to one of said entities; and

    means responsive to said information for displaying a plurality of arcs at positions appearing at least in part disposed from said surface representation on said display, each of said arcs connecting the entity representations of a pair of entities, wherein the position of each of said arcs relative to said surface representation is a function of an attribute of the relationship between a pair of entities.

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