System For Linked And Networked Document Objects

• US 20160154878A1
• Filed: 12/14/2015
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DSS Technology Management, Inc. (Document Security Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Document Security Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Bascom, Thomas Layne, Harmon, Jason N.
• Application Number:
  US14/968,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20160154878A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links

Abstract

Systems and methods for searching relationships between and among documents are disclosed. A user interface for presenting document objects and relationships between document objects located on a network is also disclosed. The document objects provided to the user may be determined based on document object references corresponding to the document objects. Document object information, relationship information, and contextual relationship information may also be provided to the user.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more interconnected servers accessible to users of said system;

one or more document objects stored in or accessible to said interconnected servers;

document object information pertaining to said one or more document objects, said document object information stored in or accessible to said interconnected servers;

relationship information pertaining to relationships between two or more of said document objects, said relationship information stored in or accessible to said interconnected servers;

contextual relationship information associated with said relationship information, said contextual relationship information stored in or accessible to said interconnected servers;

document object references each corresponding to at least one of said document objects, said document object references stored in or accessible to said interconnected servers; and

wherein said relationship information comprises information referring to said two or more document objects and said contextual relationship information;

at least one of said interconnected servers configured to allow at least one of said users to establish at least one of said relationships between said two or more document objects;

at least one of said interconnected servers configured to make at least a portion of said document objects accessible over the internet;

at least one of said interconnected servers configured to make at least one of said document objects accessible to at least one of said users based on at least one of said document object references corresponding to said at least one accessible document object; and

at least one of said interconnected servers transmitting for use in a display to at least one of said users at least a portion of said document object information, at least a portion of said relationship information and at least a portion of said contextual relationship information.

2-5. -5. (canceled)

6. A user interface for presenting and searching link relationships between document objects located on a network, the user interface comprising:

a first portion of a single display, wherein one or more link relationship attributes are displayed, the one or more link relationship attributes describing one or more link relationships between document objects located on the network; and

a second portion of the display, wherein one or more entries are displayed from a group consisting of;

link references that represent document objects, wherein the link references are found within one or more records representing the one or more link relationships between document objects, whereby each records comprises a traversable pairwise connection between document objects by having a field identifying a first document object, a field identifying a second document object, and one or more fields identifying link relationship attributes describing a traversable connection between two document objects,

additional link relationship attributes describing the link relationships,

link reference attributes describing the link references, and

document objects, wherein the document objects are stored on the network separate from the link relationships between document objects; and

wherein at least one of the displayed one or more entries in the second portion is selected and communicated which causes a system to locate and transmit, for later use in a display, one or more link relationships between document objects, thereby improving the functionality of the network by enhancing a user'"'"'s ability to locate document objects on a network by transforming a user selection into a contextual search for document objects located on a network.

7. A user interface for presenting and searching link relationships between document objects located on a network, the user interface comprising:

a first display, wherein one or more link directories are displayed, the one or more link directories storing one or more link relationships between document objects, each of the link relationships between document objects being stored as a record comprising a traversable connection between document objects, each traversable record having a field identifying a first document object, a field identifying a second document object, and one or more fields identifying link relationship attributes describing the traversable connection between the two document objects;

a second display having a first portion of a single display, wherein one or more link relationship attributes are displayed; and

a second portion of the second display, wherein one or more entries are displayed from the group consisting of;

link references that represent the document objects,

link relationship attributes,

link reference attributes describing the link references, and

document objects, wherein the document objects are stored on the network separate from the link relationships between document objects; and

wherein at least one of the one or more entries in the third portion is selected and communicated and causes a system to locate and transmit, for later use in a display, one or more link relationships between document objects stored in the one or more link directories displayed in the first display, thereby improving the functionality of the network by enhancing a user'"'"'s ability locate document objects on a network by transforming a user selection into a contextual search for document objects located on a network.