System and method for multi-dimensional foraging and retrieval of documents
First Claim
1. A method for interactive foraging for documents within a corpus of documents comprising:
- forming a working set of documents which are a subset of the corpus;
generating a visual representation of the working set and at least a portion of the corpus other than the working set; and
generating a visual representation of a retrieval boundary between the working set and the portion of the corpus other than the working set.
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Abstract
A method for interactive foraging for documents within a corpus of documents includes forming a working set of documents which are a subset of the corpus of documents. A visual representation of the working set and a portion of the corpus other than the working set are generated, and a visual representation of a retrieval boundary, between the working set and the portion of the corpus other than the working set, is presented. A further embodiment provides a system for interactive foraging of documents within a corpus of documents which includes, a visualization foraging subsystem, and an analytical repository containing a plurality of documents. The documents have been analyzed and are provided with associated dimensional data. A search mechanism of the visualization foraging subsystem is configured to form a working set of documents from the corpus of documents. A display device displays the working set and a portion of the corpus other than the working set, and a retrieval boundary is displayed on the display distinguishing between documents in the working set and the displayed documents of the corpus other than the working set.
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34 Claims
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1. A method for interactive foraging for documents within a corpus of documents comprising:
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forming a working set of documents which are a subset of the corpus;
generating a visual representation of the working set and at least a portion of the corpus other than the working set; and
generating a visual representation of a retrieval boundary between the working set and the portion of the corpus other than the working set. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for interactive foraging of documents within a corpus of documents, comprising:
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a foraging subsystem;
an analytical repository containing a plurality of documents which have been analyzed and which have associated dimensional data;
a search mechanism of the foraging subsystem, the search mechanism configured to form a working set of documents from the corpus;
a display which displays the working set and at least a portion of the corpus other than the working set; and
a retrieval boundary displayed on the display to distinguish between documents in the working set and displayed documents of the corpus other than the working set. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A multi-dimensional foraging method comprising:
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generating a working set of documents from a collection of documents having dimensions, wherein a dimension of a document represents a characteristic of the document;
selecting panels, each panel corresponding to a selected dimension or combination of dimensions of the documents;
generating for each of the selected panels, sets of the documents in the working set, the generated document sets corresponding to the dimension or combination of dimensions of a corresponding panel;
generating neighboring document sets from documents other than those of the working set, the neighboring document sets related to the document sets generated from the working set;
arranging the document sets having a particular dimension or combination of dimensions in relationship to each other in a same panel; and
displaying the panels having the arranged document set on a visual display device, wherein a multi-dimensional view of the working set is provided. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. In a data communication network a multi-dimensional retrieval system comprising:
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a working set of documents generated from a collection of documents having dimensions, wherein a dimension of a document represents a characteristic of the document;
a plurality of panels, each panel corresponding to a selected dimension or combination of dimensions of the documents;
a plurality of documents generated from the documents in the working set, the generated documents representative of the dimension or combination of dimensions for a corresponding panel;
a plurality of neighboring document sets formed from documents other than the documents of the working set, the neighboring documents related to the documents generated from the working set; and
a display for displaying multiple dimensions, including at least some of the plurality of panels having ones of the document sets, the document sets corresponding to the dimension or combination of dimensions of the respective panel, and the selected document sets arranged in a relationship to each other. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34)
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