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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Robert Kerr, Cambridge, GB;
Ian P. Kitchen, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Robert Tucker, Cambridge, GB;
Dominique Martindale, Cambridge, GB;
Martin Nathan, Chelmsford, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for entity selection in a visualization of a network graph is provided. The present invention may include receiving as input a selection interaction. The present invention may then include generating a profile based on one or more entity characteristics of one or more entities selected in the selection interaction. The present invention may then include generating a weighting for one or more entities based on the generated profile, wherein the generated weighting is a sum of weights of one or more entity characteristics. The present invention may lastly include partitioning the user interface into one or more selectable areas, wherein a size of the selectable area is based on the generated weighting for a displayed entity.