Systems and methods for risk data navigation

A computer implemented method for providing a visual interactive software tool that permits users to investigate and evaluate financial, trade, and business-related risks, comprising:

• providing a database, stored in nonvolatile memory and configured to store graph data structures comprising a plurality of different types of nodes, edges, and related properties that are used by the system to build a graph, wherein the database stores information represented as nodes, edges, and related properties;
• implementing an electronic online customer platform that includes a visual interactive interface having a visual workspace and interactive tools, the tools include a search engine that provides keyword searching capability that surfaces possible matching nodes in the database, that provides the user with the ability to add an identified node to the visual workspace, that generates a visual graphic representation of the identified node in the visual workspace, that communicates that the identified node has a certain number of connections, and that permits the user to select one of the connections to add to the visual workspace and in response displays additional nodes and edges using separate visual graphical elements for nodes and edges that visually illustrate the selected connection;
• storing data input including selections of nodes of interest and selections of criteria that specify a type of edge to be traversed by a software engine;
• implementing a software engine configured to automatically traverse pathways starting from each node of interest through the types of edges specified by the criteria and identify one or more nodes in the database as associated nodes, wherein the software engine performs node traversal from each node of interest and stops traversing when a node has no edges that match the type of edge specified by the criteria and in response saves corresponding information representing the associated node of interest and, the type of edges connecting the associated nodes and the corresponding node of interest in accordance with the criteria;
• wherein the electronic online customer platform is configured to determine whether the identified node is one of the associated nodes, and,
• responsive to the determination, displaying an interactive visual graphical element on the visual graphic representation of the identified node in the visual workspace and providing the user with the ability to interact with the interactive visual graphical element to selectively add, as a group, the edges and nodes connecting the identified node to one or more particular nodes of interest in accordance with the corresponding information;
• determining that the identified node corresponds to plural associated nodes and, in response, displaying interactive option to select each association and retrieve a corresponding subgraph;
• displaying a list of selectable options each corresponding to a subgraph that contains the identified node;
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• displaying a set of selectable options to add subgraphs that contain the identified node, wherein a first option corresponds to an ownership subgraph, a second option corresponds to a subgraph that comprises a connection to a sanctioned node, and a third option corresponds to a subgraph related to investigational topic or theme, and wherein in response to the selection of one of the options, the system retrieves and displays the corresponding subgraph to the workspace.

A computer-readable medium on which are encoded, computer-executable instructions for carrying out a process, when executed by a computer, for providing a visual interactive software tool that permits users to investigate and evaluate financial, trade, and business-related risks, the process comprising:

• providing a database, stored in nonvolatile memory and configured to store graph data structures comprising a plurality of different types of nodes, edges, and related properties that are used by the system to build a graph, wherein the database stores information represented as nodes, edges, and related properties;
• implementing an electronic online customer platform that includes a visual interactive interface having a visual workspace and interactive tools, the tools include a search engine that provides keyword searching capability that surfaces possible matching nodes in the database, that provides the user with the ability to add an identified node to the visual workspace, that generates a visual graphic representation of the identified node in the visual workspace, that communicates that the identified node has a certain number of connections, and that permits the user to select one of the connections to add to the visual workspace and in response displays additional nodes and edges using separate visual graphical elements for nodes and edges that visually illustrate the selected connection;
• storing data input including selections of nodes of interest and selections of criteria that specify a type of edge to be traversed by a software engine;
• implementing a software engine configured to automatically traverse pathways starting from each node of interest through the types of edges specified by the criteria and identify one or more nodes in the database as associated nodes, wherein the software engine performs node traversal from each node of interest and stops traversing when a node has no edges that match the type of edge specified by the criteria and in response saves corresponding information representing the associated node of interest and, the type of edges connecting the associated nodes and the corresponding node of interest in accordance with the criteria;
• wherein the electronic online customer platform is configured to determine whether the identified node is one of the associated nodes, and,
• responsive to the determination, displaying an interactive visual graphical element on the visual graphic representation of the identified node in the visual workspace and providing the user with the ability to interact with the interactive visual graphical element to selectively add, as a group, the edges and nodes connecting the identified node to one or more particular nodes of interest in accordance with the corresponding information;
• determining that the identified node corresponds to plural associated nodes and, in response, displaying interactive option to select each association and retrieve a corresponding subgraph;
• displaying a list of selectable options each corresponding to a subgraph that contains the identified node;
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• displaying a set of selectable options to add subgraphs that contain the identified node, wherein a first option corresponds to an ownership subgraph, a second option corresponds to a subgraph that comprises a connection to a sanctioned node, and a third option corresponds to a subgraph related to investigational topic or theme, and wherein in response to the selection of one of the options, the system retrieves and displays the corresponding subgraph to the workspace.