Modelling relationships within an on-line connectivity universe

A computer-readable memory medium containing instructions that, when executed, control a computer processor to model a connectivity universe comprising objects, the objects comprising one or more physical devices, logical devices or data collections, each associated with a same user of a plurality of users via one or more on-line relationships via one or more computer networks, by performing a method comprising:

• automatically determining a plurality of objects from the objects of the connectivity universe of a user of the of users and an assessment of access proximity relative to the user for each such object;
• wherein the access proximity assessment for the user of each object is at least based upon prior access history to the object;
• and wherein the access proximity assessment for at least one of the objects is different for different users;
• automatically grouping the determined objects into a plurality of groupings based upon the assessments of relative access proximity of the determined objects, each grouping associated with a different class of access proximity, a plurality of the groupings including at least one object that is a computing system with a display and a keyboard, and at least one of the groupings including an object that is a wireless device;
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• displaying, in a unified view, a graphical representation of the automatically determined groupings and their respective objects that graphically indicates the class of access proximity associated with each grouping relative to the user and that displays representations of the automatically determined objects within each determined grouping, such that the displayed graphical representation models at least a portion of the connectivity universe of the user.

A computing system comprising:

• a plurality of devices that are part of a connectivity universe of a user of a plurality of users;
• a plurality of data collections that are part of the connectivity universe of the user;
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• a display manager that is configured, when executed, to:
• automatically determine a plurality of objects from the connectivity universe of the user and an assessment of access proximity relative to the user for each such object;
• wherein the access proximity assessment for the user of each object is at least based upon prior access history to the object;
• and wherein the access proximity assessment for at least one of the objects is different for different users, each object associated with at least one of the plurality of devices or at least one of the plurality of data collections;
• automatically group the determined objects into a plurality of groupings based upon the assessments of relative access proximity of the determined objects, each grouping associated with a different class of access proximity, a plurality of the groupings including at least one object that is a computing system with a display and a keyboard, and at least one of the groupings including an object that is a wireless device;
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• display a plurality of proximity bands wherein each proximity band corresponds to a determined grouping and graphically indicates relative to the user the class of access proximity associated with the grouping, graphically depicts connectivity connections with other of the plurality of proximity bands, and indicates representations of the objects included in the grouping, thereby providing a model of at least part of the connectivity universe of the user.