GUI FOR VIEWING AND MANIPULATING CONNECTED TAG CLOUDS

• US 20140195950A1
• Filed: 08/15/2013
• Published: 07/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Diament, Judah M., Heching, Aliza R., Malkin, Peter K.
• Granted Patent: US 9,836,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence

Abstract

A method of visualizing and interacting with a given term graph for a given group G defined by a set of values d for a set of dimensions D and topic X, may comprise obtaining the term graph associated with the given group G and the topic X; displaying the topic X in a tag cloud; representing each term from the term graph as a tag in the tag cloud, wherein a distance of a given tag from the displayed topic X in the tag cloud represents a distance of a term represented by the given tag from the topic X in the term graph; and visually representing a tag'"'"'s importance relative to one or more of resources associated with the given group G in the tag cloud.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of visualizing and interacting with a given term graph for a given group G defined by a set of values d for a set of dimensions D and topic X, comprising:

obtaining the term graph associated with the given group G and the topic X;

displaying the topic X in a tag cloud;

representing each term from the term graph as a tag in the tag cloud, wherein a distance of a given tag from the displayed topic X in the tag cloud represents a distance of a term represented by the given tag from the topic X in the term graph; and

visually representing a tag'"'"'s importance relative to one or more of resources associated with the given group G in the tag cloud.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein in response to receiving a selection of a tag in the tag cloud, presenting a view of one or more links to one or more of the resources in which a term associated with the selected tag was used in conjunction with the topic X, and wherein in response to receiving a selection of the one or more links, displaying said one or more of the resources linked to the selected one or more links.

3. A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of visualizing and interacting with a joint term graph for a given topic X and two or more group Gs, each of the group Gs defined by a set of values d for a set of dimensions D, comprising:

identifying one or more shared terms that are commonly used in two or more term graphs associate with respective two or more group Gs;

presenting the shared terms;

retrieving a term graph associated with said each group G associated with topic X;

identifying a set of terms in the term graph associated with said each group G;

displaying, by a processor, the set of terms as tags in a tag cloud for each group G, wherein multiple tag clouds are displayed; and

linking, for each of the shared terms, a shared term to a tag in the tag clouds that represents a same term as the shared term.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the presenting the shared terms comprises displaying each of the shared terms as a tag in a shared-tag tag cloud separate from the multiple tag clouds.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the tag in the shared-tag tag cloud further displays one or more attributes associated with the tag.

6. A system for visualizing and interacting with a given term graph for a given group G defined by a set of values d for a set of dimensions D and topic X, comprising:

a processor; and

a graphical user interface module operable to execute on the processor and further operable to obtain the term graph associated with the given group G and the topic X, display the topic X in a tag cloud, represent each term from the term graph as a tag in the tag cloud, wherein a distance of a given tag from the displayed topic X in the tag cloud represents a distance of a term represented by the given tag from the topic X in the term graph, the graphical interface module further operable to visually represent a tag'"'"'s importance relative to one or more of resources associated with the given group G in the tag cloud.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the graphical user interface module is further operable to identify one or more shared terms that are commonly used in two or more term graphs associate with respective two or more group Gs, present the shared terms, and link, for each of the shared terms, a shared term to a tag in the tag clouds that represents a same term as the shared term.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the graphical user interface module is operable to present the shared terms by displaying each of the shared terms as a tag in a shared-tag tag cloud separate from the multiple tag clouds.