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Panoptic visualization document collection

  • US 10,268,761 B2
  • Filed: 03/08/2012
  • Issued: 04/23/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving and disassembling one or more electronic documents into a plurality of constituent electronic document components each of which includes respective media content, the documents being disassembled according to a predetermined type of the documents;

    colligating the document components, including for each of one or more document components of the plurality;

    identifying one or more links between the document component and one or more other document components of the plurality, the one or more links being identified according to one or more of the documents, type of documents, or media content of the document component and one or more other document components; and

    in metadata according to some metadata schema and associated with the document component,providing structured information identifying the one or more links between the document component and one or more other document components that establish one or more logical relationships therebetween;

    communicating the document components and metadata as a panoptic visualization document collection;

    receiving and storing the document components and metadata in a page storage and a metadata storage, respectively;

    identifying a subset of the document components from the page storage based on the metadata in the metadata storage;

    generating a layout of including a panoptic arrangement of images of document components including the subset of the document components according to the metadata associated therewith, the panoptic arrangement being two-dimensional and the one or more logical relationships being expressed in the panoptic arrangement by a difference in size or depth of at least some of the images relative to others of the images, the images of document components including images of the respective media content thereof;

    selecting one or more navigation options according to the metadata associated with the subset of the document components; and

    communicating the one or more navigation options to a graphical user interface for presentation to a user along with the layout, the one or more navigation options thereby being selectable by the user to request an adjustment of the layout.

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