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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2002
Marin Litoiu, Toronto, CA;
Margaret Storey, Victoria, CA;
Derek Rayside, Aurora, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for visualizing process flows for business and manufacturing processes are described that includes a first view of the process as a tree showing the process elements and their interconnections, and a second view of the process in the form of a zoomable interface that displays selected nodes at magnifications that are continuously variable at the user's option. A selected node in the tree view opens the same node in the zoomable node view. When a second node is selected in the tree view, the zoomable node view zooms from the first selected node to the second selected node through each node intermediate between the first and second selected nodes. This enables a process analyst to view the content of selected process nodes in the context of nodes with which the selected nodes are associated and thus to have a thorough understanding of the process.