Method of visualizing sets of correlated events on a display
First Claim
1. A method of presenting a set of correlated events on a display, each event having a time of occurrence and at least one attribute indicating its correlation with other events of the set, the method comprising:
- plotting a first glyph corresponding to a first event of the set on the display at a first radial distance and a first angular position with respect to an origin, the first radial distance and a size of the first glyph being related to the occurrence time of the first event; and
plotting a second glyph corresponding to a second event of the set at a second radial distance and a second angular position with respect to the origin, the second radial distance and a size of the second glyph being related to the occurrence time of the second event, the second angular position being equal to the first angular position of the first glyph, unless the first glyph and the second glyph would overlap on the display, in which case the second angular position of the second glyph is shifted by an amount sufficient to avoid such overlap.
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Abstract
A method of visualizing sets of correlated events of a stream of events on a display, each event having a time of occurrence in the stream and at least one attribute indicating its correlation with the other events of a set, including the steps of plotting a glyph for each event on the display at a radial distance and an angular position with respect to an origin; the radial distance and the size of a glyph being proportional to the occurrence time of its event; the angular position of the glyph of a succeeding event in a set being chosen equal to that of the preceding event in the set unless these two glyphs would over-lap in which case the angular position of the glyph of said subsequent event is shifted in a given direction by an amount just sufficient to avoid such overlap; and the angular position of the glyph of the first event in a set being chosen so that overlapping of all glyphs is minimized.
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1. A method of presenting a set of correlated events on a display, each event having a time of occurrence and at least one attribute indicating its correlation with other events of the set, the method comprising:
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plotting a first glyph corresponding to a first event of the set on the display at a first radial distance and a first angular position with respect to an origin, the first radial distance and a size of the first glyph being related to the occurrence time of the first event; and plotting a second glyph corresponding to a second event of the set at a second radial distance and a second angular position with respect to the origin, the second radial distance and a size of the second glyph being related to the occurrence time of the second event, the second angular position being equal to the first angular position of the first glyph, unless the first glyph and the second glyph would overlap on the display, in which case the second angular position of the second glyph is shifted by an amount sufficient to avoid such overlap. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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