3D VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR WEB SURVEY

• US 20100153372A1
• Filed: 12/17/2008
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sea Woo Kim
• Original Assignee: Sea Woo Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Sea Woo
• Application Number:
  US12/337,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20100153372A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional visualization system for internet-based web surveys which can collect in real time web articles about specific companies, products or public figures from specific websites, blogs or knowledge-search web pages, process and analyze collected articles and display survey results with a planetary system having a three-dimensional fixed star and planets such that the user can understand easily and accurately the survey results. The system can include a user interface, a database server configured to store collection conditions, a web crawler module a text classification module, an analysis engine module, a statistical evaluation module, and store rate values of the web articles and a presentation tool configured to display three-dimensional graphics of the rate values of the web articles stored in the statistical evaluation module symbolizing a planetary system having a fixed star and planets.

Claims

1. An internet-based survey system graphically displaying survey results in three-dimensions, the system comprising:

a user interface providing a user-friendly environment for a user to input a survey subject;

a database server configured to store collection conditions defined by the user and processed result data with the collection conditions;

a web crawler module configured to search directories in website search engines with the collection conditions stored in the database server and to collect web articles relating to the survey subject;

a text classification module configured to break the web articles collected into sentences and further into words in order to determine a part of speech of each word used in the web articles;

an analysis engine module configured to grade the web articles based on predetermined weight values for words;

a statistical evaluation module configured to further rate the web articles graded by the analysis engine module in terms of themes and website search engines and store rate values of the web articles; and

a presentation tool configured to display three-dimensional graphics of the rate values of the web articles stored in the statistical evaluation module symbolizing a planetary system having a fixed star and planets.

2. The internet-based survey system of claim 1, wherein the planets are displayed as a sphere-shaped or a hexahedron-shaped unit.

3. The internet-based survey system of claim 2, wherein the fixed star comprises the survey subject and the planets comprise the website search engines collecting public opinions relating to the survey subject.

4. The internet-based survey system of claim 3, wherein the planets surrounding the fixed star display a recognition rank of the website search engines by way of distances between the fixed star and the planets.

5. The internet-based survey system of claim 4, wherein the size of the planets corresponds to the number of collected opinions.

6. The internet-based survey system of claim 4, wherein the color of the planets vary according to the level of preference, higher in more blue and lower in more red.

7. The internet-based survey system of claim 1, wherein the web crawler module further comprising a site rank manager in the database server updating the rank of each website search engine, an article viewer presenting stored web articles through the user interface and a keyword manager updating a natural language database, which is used by the user to analyze web articles, through the user interface.

8. The internet-based survey system of claim 1, wherein the analysis engine module further comprises a subject manager storing the survey subject being inputted by the user through the user interface, a web crawler storing the collected articles in the database sever in terms of the website search engines and an analysis engine analyzing the collected articles stored in the database by using a natural language treatment module registered with the keyword manager.

9. The internet-based survey system of claim 1, wherein the presentation tool further comprises a database calculator determining the sizes and colors of the planets and the distances of the planets from the fixed star, a two-dimensional graphic generator displaying the values of the sizes, colors and distances of the planets determined by the database calculator on a screen in two-dimensions, a three-dimensional graphic generator displaying the values determined by the database calculator on a screen in three-dimensions, a model change manger changing visual displays of the planetary system according to input variables including a scale-up, a scale-down, a move and a rotation and a graphic generation manger displaying information contained in the database calculator through the two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphic generators.