SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF ENTERPRISE OPERATIONAL INTEGRATION INFORMATION

• US 20080104531A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Original Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Inventors: Stambaugh, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/865,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/30 Map- or contour-matching

Abstract

A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police stations for a municipality. Another spatial domain may be a visualization of a specific biological pathway, containing annotation on potential drug targets, signal transduction cascades, disease pathways, biomarkers for diagnostic opportunities, or cellular localization for a metabolic pathway. Zeetix methods and systems enable the organization of information around a specific spatial domain. These methods and systems facilitate managing objects presented in visualization layers of a variety of spatial domains. The methods and systems may include methods and systems for associating an object with one or more spatial domains; presenting the object in a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the spatial domain, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a published application programming interface; assigning the object at least one attribute associated with a virtual property right in at least one spatial domain; and upon a user interaction with the object in the visualization layer, presenting information associated with the virtual property right(s) of the object.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying operational activities and data types of a business entity;

associating objects with each activity and each data type;

rendering a spatial domain of relationships of activities and data types, the spatial domain containing a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the spatial domain, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a published map application programming interface;

presenting the objects on a operation integration map that represents at least one visualization layer of the spatial domain; and

in response to a user interaction with one of the presented objects, adjusting an aspect of the object so that object reflects an action determined from the user interaction.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the operational activities include at least one of manufacturing, supply chain management, financials, project activity, human resources, customer relationship management, and data warehousing.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the actions include at least one of forecasts, production commitments, sales orders, and order inquiries.

4. A method comprising;

identifying a first spatial domain;

associating a plurality of virtual property rights objects with the spatial domain; and

presenting the objects in a plurality of navigable visualization layers with dimensions that correspond to the dimensions of the virtual property rights objects, the visualization layers having a navigation scheme for navigating within and among the visualization layers, wherein the visualization layers conform to a geographic information application programming interface.

5. A method comprising;

providing an object associated with a first spatial domain;

associating a plurality of informational attributes with the object;

associating a plurality of spatial dimensions with the informational attributes; and

accessing one or more of the attributes based on the first spatial domain.