DISTRIBUTED WEB-BASED PROCESSING, SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF INFORMATION

• US 20080172632A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Original Assignee: Zeetix, LLC
• Inventors: Stambaugh, Thomas M.
• Application Number:
  US11/865,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172632A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34

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:

presenting an object associated with a spatial domain;

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

in response to a user interaction with the presented object, accessing one or more of the attributes based on the spatial domain.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a first attribute of the plurality of attributes associated with the object is accessible from a first spatial domain and a second attribute of the plurality of attributes is accessible from a second spatial domain.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least portion of the plurality of attributes include visualization information to facilitate presenting the object based on the spatial domain.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one attributed of the plurality of attributes includes at least one link to a second spatial domain associated with the object.

5. 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 object associated with the first spatial domain;

associating attributes with the at least one object, wherein the attributes are accessible from a plurality of visualization layers of the spatial domain;

navigating to a first visualization layer; and

in response to a user interaction with the at least one presented object, accessing one or more of the attributes based on the navigated layer.

6. A method comprising:

identifying a first spatial domain;

associating a plurality of objects with a first spatial domain; and

presenting the objects 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 map application programming interface.

7-9. -9. (canceled)