Apparatus for creating graphical visualization of data with a browser

• US 20060224984A1
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Technology Enabling Company LLC
• Original Assignee: Technology Enabling Company LLC
• Inventors: Zhang, Tiejun, Albrecht, Paul, Yang, Xiao Ping, Grimshaw, Paul, Toong, Hoo-Min D., Chiu, Kimberly, Hadzima, Joseph G. Jr., Dai, Lillian, Lu, Fenghua, Chiu, Vicent
• Application Number:
  US11/097,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224984A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/382 using citations hypermedia G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/11 Patent retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Embodiments of an apparatus for creating graphical visualization of data with a browser, such as a web browser, are disclosed.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

means for creating application-like graphical map visualizations of data; and

means for browsing.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said means for creating visualizations includes means for creating one or more maps.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said one or more maps includes means for creating at least one landscape map.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein said means for creating at least one landscape map comprises means for creating a landscape map that includes issued patent information.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein said means for creating at least one landscape map also includes means for creating at least one landscape map that includes pending patent application information.

6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps includes an interactive viewer window.

7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps includes means for creating at least one interconnection map.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said means for creating at least one interconnection map includes means for creating at least one interconnection map with issued patent information.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said means for creating at least one interconnection map also includes means for creating at least one interconnection map with pending patent application information.

10. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps includes means for exporting data based at least in part on said one or more maps.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said means for exporting data based at least in part on said one or more maps comprising means for exporting data in at least one of the following formats:

text and/or graphic.

12. The apparatus of claim 2, and further comprising means for switching from a map visualization to a non-map visualization.

13. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating visualizations includes means for creating non-map visualizations.

14. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps includes means for creating at least one map of forward patent citations and/or backward patent citations.

15. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps comprises means for creating at least one map depicting issued patents broken down by PTO class code and/or PTO sub class code.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said PTO comprises the USPTO.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein said means for creating one or more maps comprises means for creating at least one map depicting at least some patent applications.

18. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps comprises means for creating at least one map depicting patents sorted by inventor(s).

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein said means for creating at least one map comprises means for creating at least one map depicting at least some patent applications.

20. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for creating one or more maps comprises means for creating at least one map depicting patents sorted by issue date.

21. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said means for one or more maps comprises means for creating at least one map depicting patents sorted by filing date.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein said means for creating at least one map comprises means for creating at least one map depicting at least some patent applications.