International Business Machines Corporation
VISUALLY REPRESENTING CONCEPTS AND RELATIONSHIPS ON AN ELECTRONIC INTERFACE FOR DELIVERED CONTENT

Abstract:

A computer distinguishes relationships among concepts of conveyance contained within delivered content. The computer receives several of concepts of conveyance and determines a first visual identification indicia for a first of the concepts, with the first visual identification indicia being characterized by a first combination of appearance style elements selected from a group of visual attribute categories. The appearance style elements have sufficient visual contrast relative to one another to represent distinguishable relationships among individual concepts of conveyance, pairs of concepts of conveyance and multiple concepts of conveyance that are overlapping. The computer iteratively determines a visual identification indicia for each concepts of conveyance. The visual identification indicia are characterized by a unique corresponding combination of appearance style elements selected from the visual attribute categories. The computer presents a visualization of concepts of conveyance in a manner that distinguishes relationships among the concepts of conveyance.