SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF TRAVEL AND ENTERTAINMENT INFORMATION

• US 20080109761A1
• 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:
  US11/865,283
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109761A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/853
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

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 a first 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 at least one of the navigable visualization layers in a map;

associating a plurality of objects with the map, wherein the objects represent at least one of travel related locations and entertainment related events;

presenting a visualization tree for selecting the objects to be presented on the map; and

in response to a user interaction with one of the presented objects, facilitating user access to travel and entertainment information associated with the object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the objects to be presented on the map includes selecting a subset of objects based on common aspects of the objects.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the common aspects include a time, a date, a proximity among objects, a geographic area, a price, availability of reservations, a quality rating, user preferences, a genre, and an artist.