Patents
Fractal:Edge originally applied for patent protection on Fractal Maps under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 1998. We have since been granted patents in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom by European patent 1105817, in Germany by patent 698 08 152.8-08, in Russia by patent 2285949, in Australia by patent 775871, in the United States of America by patent 6775659, and have further patents or pending patents in these and other territories.
To learn more about Fractal Maps please click here.
By moving your mouse over a circle and "hovering" over it (by keeping the mouse still) for a short time, you will see labels appear to show you the titles of the page you are hovering over (at 12 o'clock) and the pages it is linked to.
In addition, the Fractal Map will show a "crumb trail" for the page you are viewing by highlighting the relevant circles in red. The smallest red circle represents the page you are viewing and any "parent" pages higher up in the website structure will also be highlighted red showing you the route you would take to reach the page. Note that the homepage itself is never coloured red in this way.
