GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTING CONTENT RELATIONSHIPS ON A SURFACE OF GRAPHICAL OBJECT

• US 20100088621A1
• Filed: 10/02/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Word Diamonds, LLC
• Original Assignee: Word Diamonds, LLC
• Inventors: Paley, Kate C.
• Granted Patent: US 8,689,143 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/20 Finite element generation, e.g. wire-frame surface description, tesselation

Abstract

A collection of data stored in a computer-readable storage medium is provided, and a plurality of portions of the collection are associated with corresponding identifiers that are associated with positions of an object to be rendered. User selections of positions on the surface of the object are received. The portions associated with the user selected position are determined, and the portions are displayed at their respective position on the surface of the object. The selected portions can be displayed as being connected by graphical elements.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of presenting a collection of data, the method being performed by a programmed computer processor, the method comprising:

storing a collection of data in a computer database, the data having a plurality of portions, each portion associated with a position on a surface of a graphical object;

displaying the graphical object;

receiving a user selection of a plurality of positions of the surface of the graphical object;

determining for each selected position the portion associated with the position; and

displaying the graphical object and a graphical connection between each of the selected portions.

2. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the selected portions and the graphical connection between each of the selected portions form a facet, and

wherein the method further comprises:

receiving user selections that form a plurality of facets, each facet corresponding to selected positions on the surface of the object and graphical connections between those selected positions; and

grouping the plurality of facets to form a diamond.

3. A computer-implemented method of presenting a collection of data, the method being performed by a programmed computer processor, the method comprising:

storing a collection of data in a computer database, the data including a plurality of portions, each portion associated with a position on a surface of a graphical object;

receiving a user input search term;

determining a portion of the data corresponding to the search term;

determining, for the portion, the position on the surface of the object associated with the portion; and

displaying the graphical object and the portion at the position on the surface of the object associated with the portion.

4. A computer-implemented method of organizing a collection of data, the method being performed by a programmed computer processor, the method comprising:

providing a collection of data stored in a computer-readable storage medium;

associating, by the processor, a plurality of portions of the collection with corresponding identifiers that are associated with positions on a surface of a graphical object;

receiving a selection of a set of portions;

determining, by the processor, a set of positions based on identifiers associated with the set of portions; and

graphically displaying a result based on the determining, wherein the result is a graphical representation of a grouping of the set of portions.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

receiving, by the processor, a search term inputted by a user via a communication network;

searching the collection, by the processor, for one or more portions of the collection corresponding to the search term;

generating a search result that includes the one or more portions and one or more identifiers corresponding to the one or more portions, based on the searching of the collection.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the selection of the set of portions is from the search result.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising displaying the search result as locations on the graphical object.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the displaying of the result includes displaying a graphical relationship between the identifiers associated with the set of portions.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the graphical relationship includes at least one of:

a linear segment, a curvilinear segment, and a plane.

10. The method according to claim 4, wherein the graphical representation of the grouping of the set of portions is a diamond.

11. The method according to claim 4, wherein the collection is a Bible collection.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the set of portions is a set of Bible verses.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the displaying of the result includes displaying linear segments connecting the identifiers associated with the set of Bible verses.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising grouping the linear segments to form facets of a diamond.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein each identifier associated with the set of Bible verses is connected to at least two other identifiers associated with the set of Bible verses.

16. An electronic system for facilitating coordination of interactive information organization via a communication network, the system comprising:

a central processing unit configured to selectively execute one or more program modules;

an interface configured to transmit data from the central processing unit to the communication network, to receive data from the communication network, and to provide the received data to the central processing unit; and

a memory storing a data collection and the plurality of program modules, the memory being accessible by the central processing unit,

wherein the program modules include;

a program module for associating a plurality of portions of the collection with corresponding identifiers that are associated with positions on a surface of an object;

a program module for receiving a selection of a set of portions;

a program module for determining a set of positions based on identifiers associated with the set of portions; and

a program module for graphically displaying a result based on the determining, wherein the result is a graphical representation of a grouping of the set of portions.

17. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer code that, when executed by a computer processor, causes the computer processor to perform a method for organizing and graphically presenting information, wherein the method comprises:

accessing a collection of data stored in a memory;

associating a plurality of portions of the collection with corresponding identifiers that are associated with positions on a surface of a graphical object;

receiving a selection of a set of portions;

determining a set of positions based on identifiers associated with the set of portions; and

graphically displaying a result based on the determining, wherein the result is a graphical representation of a grouping of the set of portions.

18. An electronic system for facilitating coordination of interactive Bible information organization via a communication network, the system comprising:

a central processing unit configured to selectively execute one or more program modules;

an interface configured to transmit data from the central processing unit to the communication network, to receive data from the communication network, and to provide the received data to the central processing unit; and

a memory storing a collection of Bible data and the plurality of program modules, the memory being accessible by the central processing unit,

wherein the program modules include;

a coordination module configured to provide an interactive interface with information search capabilities to at least one user computer; and

an information visualization module configured to access the memory and to graphically depict a relationship between a plurality of Bible data stored in the memory.

19. The system according claim 18, wherein the information visualization module generates an electronic display representing the plurality of Bible data as a graphical object.

20. The system according to claim 19, wherein the graphical object is a polyhedron, and wherein each of the plurality of Bible data is represented as a vertex of the polyhedron.