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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2014
Cary D. Perttunen, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Cary D. Perttunen, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A tree having a height of at least two relates a plurality of financial items. A computer determines which of a plurality of arrangements of the financial items in the tree is an optimal arrangement that has an optimum value of a function of a plurality of similarity values between pairs of the financial items at each non-zero level of the tree, wherein the arrangements are limited by prohibiting cyclic-equivalent sequences and reverse-cyclic-equivalent sequences for arranging at least three financial items that are children of a financial item that is the root node in the tree. A display device displays a planar depiction of the tree in which the financial items are arranged according to the optimal arrangement that prohibits the cyclic-equivalent sequences and the reverse-cyclic-equivalent sequences for arranging the at least three financial items that are children of the financial item that is the root node in the tree.