Graphical visualization of data product using browser

• US 20060224999A1
• 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: Chiu, Vicent, Zhang, Tiejun, Albrecht, Paul, Yang, Xiao Ping, Grimshaw, Paul, Toong, Hoo-Min D., Chiu, Kimberly, Hadzima, Joseph G. Jr., Dai, Lillian, Lu, Fenghua
• Application Number:
  US11/096,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224999A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/853
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

Embodiments of graphical visualization of data product using a browser, such as a web browser, are disclosed.

Claims

1. A display comprising:

a graphical application interface product;

said graphical application interface including application-like graphical map visualizations of data having been created using a browser.

2. The display of claim 1, wherein said graphical application interface including includes one or more maps having been created using said browser.

3. The display of claim 2, wherein said graphical application interface includes at least one landscape map having been created using said browser.

4. The display of claim 3, wherein said graphical application interface includes at least one landscape map with issued patent information having been created using said browser.

5. The display of claim 4, wherein said at least one landscape map also includes pending patent application information having been created using said browser.

6. The display of claim 2, wherein said one or more maps are viewed using an interactive viewer window having been created using said browser.

7. The display of claim 2, wherein said one or more maps include at least one interconnection map having been created using said browser.

8. The display of claim 7 wherein said at least one interconnection map having been created using said browser includes issued patent information.

9. The display of claim 8, wherein said at least one interconnection map having been created using said browser includes pending patent application information.

10. The display of claim 2, wherein data is exported based at least in part on said one or more maps having been created using said browser.

11. The display of claim 10, wherein said exported data comprises at least one of the following data formats:

text and/or graphic.

12. The display of claim 2, switching from a map visualization created using said browser to a non-map visualization.

13. The display of claim 2, wherein said non-map visualization having been created using said browser.

14. The display of claim 2, wherein said one or more maps having been created using said browser includes at least one of forward patent citations and/or backward patent citations.

15. The display of claim 2, wherein said one or more maps having been created using said browser comprises at least one map depicting issued patents broken down by PTO class code and/or PTO sub class code.

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

17. The display of claim 15, wherein said at least one map also depicts at least some patent applications.

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

19. The display of claim 18, wherein said at least one map also depicts at least some patent applications.

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

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

22. The display of claim 21, wherein said at least one map also depicts at least some patent applications.