SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION

• US 20080109759A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Original Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Inventors: Stambaugh, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/865,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109759A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

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:

providing a plurality of aspects of business organization;

identifying instances of the organization aspects for a plurality of legal entities;

associating objects with each of the legal entities;

rendering a spatial domain of relationships of the legal entities, 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 entity-relationship 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, accessing at least one of the identified instances.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein aspects of business organization include ownership, partnering, and organization information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein ownership includes at least one of personal owner, corporate owner, inventor, debt agreement, subsidiary, and partial owner.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified instances include at least one of location, legal entity structure, company officers, suppliers, partners, and sales affiliates.

5. A method comprising;

presenting an object associated with a spatial domain;

associating attributes with the object, wherein the attributes are accessible from at least one spatial domain;

assigning a ticket to the object, wherein the ticket tracks a unique association of the attributes and the object; and

in response to a user interaction with the presented object, accessing the ticket to determine one or more of the attributes to present to the user.