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Intelligent optical navigator dynamic information presentation and navigation system

  • US 4,905,163 A
  • Filed: 10/03/1988
  • Issued: 02/27/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/03/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computerized information presentation system for dynamically organizing information in order to present to a user previously unrecognized relationships among portions of the information and for presenting techniques for navigation through the information comprising:

  • information description means for storing information comprising a plurality of concepts, the information description means comprising means for storing for each concept knowledge of allowable attributes for the concept and one or more of attributes, attribute values, and relationships among attributes and attribute values;

    categorization knowledge means for storing knowledge of criteria for placing the concepts into categories;

    context determination means for determining a context based on system state;

    mapping knowledge means for storing knowledge of mappings between a context and the presentation of information; and

    dynamic categorization means for dynamically placing the concepts into categories for presentation using the categorization criteria, the context and the knowledge of mappings and for displaying on a user screen selected concepts and categories.

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