Graphical user interface for an information mediation system

• US 20030160817A1
• Filed: 01/27/2003
• Published: 08/28/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Dewa, Yoshiharu, Maegawa, Hirotoshi, Nozu, Megumi, Ishida, Takayuki, Kato, Hiroki
• Granted Patent: US 7,958,451 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A graphical user interface for an information mediation system is provided for assisting the user to discover an information source that matches a sense of value of the user which normally can not be explicitly expressed in language, from a plurality of information sources such as bulletin board sites. The information mediation apparatus collects information from the plurality of information sources, analyzes the information, and generates one or more guideposts corresponding to information values thereof and data indicating a correlation between the plurality of information sources relative to the guideposts. A client apparatus receives one or more guideposts and a set of data containing information indicating the correlation of the information sources relative to the guidepost from the information mediation apparatus, and displays the correlation between these information sources in such a mode that the user can easily understand.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface for an information mediation system, comprising displaying a plurality of information source display objects disposed in an information value space on the basis of a correlation obtained as a result of overall analysis of a plurality of information sources.

2. The graphical user interface according to claim 1, wherein an appearance of each of said plurality of information source display objects is determined by an attribute or characteristic of each of said plurality of information sources.

3. The graphical user interface according to claim 1, wherein activity of each of said plurality of information sources is indicated by a rotation of each of said plurality of information source display objects.

4. The graphical user interface according to claim 1, wherein freshness of each of said plurality of information sources is indicated by a form of each of said plurality of information source display objects.

5. A graphical user interface for presenting a plurality of information sources to a user, comprising:

a first display region for displaying a whole portion of a plurality of information value spaces, each containing a plurality of information source display objects that are disposed on the basis of a correlation obtained as a result of analysis of said plurality of information sources; and

a second display region for displaying a region among said one or more information value spaces that are contained in a virtual field of vision of a user.

6. The graphical user interface according to claim 5, wherein said virtual field of vision of the user is rotatable and movable in said one or more information spaces in response to a user operation.

7. The graphical user interface according to claim 5, wherein an attribute of each of said plurality of information source display objects is changed by shifting of a virtual viewing point of the user.

8. The graphical user interface according to claim 5, further comprising a third region for displaying a most recent state of said information source display object by recording an information source display object.

9. The graphical user interface according to claim 5, further comprising a fourth region for recording a field of vision designated by the user and for displaying in said first display region a content of said information value space contained in said field of vision recorded in response to a request from the user.