Patent 7739653 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on June, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Software development items can be represented in a graph data structure. Relationships between the represented items can be detected and reflected in the graph data structure. Queries can be run against the data structure to determine which software development items are related to each other. Implicit query can be implemented in a software development context. A graph browser can present panes showing related items.