METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3D DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS OF DISPARATE DATA

• US 20150082160A1
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bitvore Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bitvore Corporation
• Inventors: Mandel, Carl, Mandel, David, Fudge, Brian, Roth, Lew, Bolcer, Gregory, Deckert, Gerry
• Application Number:
  US14/465,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/358 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• 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 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying collections of communications. These communications can be a single type or multiple types of data and may come from email systems, bulletin boards, text messages, Facebook and Twitter postings and comments, financial transactions, travel itineraries or any other type of communications. The communications represented by the system can be electronic or physical as desired. The system can also present forwarded, copied, replied, or other types of communications. In one embodiment, the system provides a Universe View of a set of communications. The Universe View, in one embodiment, is a three dimensional representation of a plurality of cubes. Each cube represents a subset of a collection of communications. Each cube can be color coded or shaded to represent a dominant theme of the contents of the communications represented by the cube.

Claims

1. A method of representing data comprising:

In a processing system,

collecting data from a plurality of sources;

normalizing the data into a conformed data structure;

identifying participants and recipients of data;

displaying the data as a plurality of circles wherein each circle represents a participant and the size of a circle represents activity of a participant.

2-9. -9. (canceled)