APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING INFORMATION BY TIME AND PLACE
First Claim
1. An apparatus including a computer readable storage medium encoded with instructions capable of being executed by a computer for recording information by time and place, the apparatus comprising:
- a capture module configured to capture information including at least a time and a place of an event; and
a plot module configured to place the information in a coordinate system having at least a first variable representing times and at least a second variable representing places;
wherein the information is placed in the coordinate system such that the time and the place are correlated.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for capturing and organizing information spatio-temporally utilizes a standardized time reference and geographical locations to associate a time and a place to each event that is captured. These events are placed in a coordinate system according to the associated times and places. The apparatus and method may use a meridial clock. A series of related events forms an event path that progresses chronologically. Plural event paths are illustrated in a coordinate system based image of a user interface. Events from different event paths are synchronized so that events that occur in a particular moment are placed in the same time plane. As time progresses, the events emit from the plane into a region representing the past, and a relationship of events with their times and places is illustrated. A map in the plane of the image may facilitate visualization of places and times with events.
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24 Claims
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1. An apparatus including a computer readable storage medium encoded with instructions capable of being executed by a computer for recording information by time and place, the apparatus comprising:
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a capture module configured to capture information including at least a time and a place of an event; and a plot module configured to place the information in a coordinate system having at least a first variable representing times and at least a second variable representing places; wherein the information is placed in the coordinate system such that the time and the place are correlated. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus to organize information by place and time, the apparatus comprising:
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a capture module that captures event information, location information, and time information; a correlation module that correlates a particular unit of the event information, a particular unit of the location information, and a particular unit of the time information as a particular event in a plurality of events; and a plot module that plots the particular event of the plurality of events on at least one member of a group consisting of an x-axis and a y-axis of a Cartesian coordinate system from the unit of location information correlated with the particular event and on a z-axis of the Cartesian coordinate system from the unit of time information correlated with the particular event. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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- 22. A method of correlating information based on time and location, the method comprising placing event information in a coordinate system having variables representing time and location.
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