Clifton L Kussmaul

US Patent:

20030020765, Jan 30, 2003

Filed:

May 14, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/143886

Inventors:

Clifton L. Kussmaul - Bethlehem PA, US
Robert E. Smith - South Riding VA, US

International Classification:

G09G005/00

US Classification:

345/853000

Abstract:

A system, method and computer program product for transforming limited graphical source data to coherent transformed data. In one embodiment, the coherent transformed data is a hierarchical data structure. The hierarchical data structure represents elements and relationships between the elements. The present invention identifies important elements from the objects present in the limited source graphical data, identifies relationships between the identified important elements, and builds the hierarchical data structure to represent the identified important elements and identified relationships between the important elements. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a map crawler tool. The map crawler tool has a user interface and a transformation engine.