Graphical display of relationships
CA 2131508 C · Owner: Wills, Graham John · Inventors: Wills, Graham John; Eick, Stephen Gregory
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Apparatus for providing displays in which the locations of nodes of a graph relative to each other are a function of the significance of a relationship between the nodes. The technique used to locate the nodes produces groups of nodes with significantrelationships to each other which are set visually apart from the other nodes. The relationships between the nodes are defined by using a statistic to give weights to links between the nodes. Statistics may also he used to determine the size shape, and color of the nodes and the color and width of the links. The display may also include histograms which show the numbers of links or nodes which have given values of the statistics and which …
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- Filed September 6, 1994 and granted September 29, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 6, 2014.
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