Interactive browser-based semiotic communication system

• US 8,482,576 B1
• Filed: 04/16/2012
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alan A. Yelsey
• Original Assignee: Alan A. Yelsey
• Inventors: Yelsey, Alan A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sajous, Wesner
• Application Number:
  US13/447,622
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• Field of Search: 345/418, 345/581, 345/589, 345593-594, 345/597, 345/619, 345/440.1, 358/448, 358/452, 382/162, 382164-165, 382/170, 382/180, 382/189, 382/176, 700 17- 18, 700/83, 700 89- 90, 700/94, 704/200, 704/270, 704/278, 715201-204, 715/273, 715/275, 715700-704, 715/716, 715726-728, 715/764, 725/37, 725/39, 725/47, 725/135, 725/105, 706 12- 16, 706/20, 706/25, 706/45, 706/61
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/02 characterised by the way in which colour is displayed details of colour display specific for CRTs G09G1/28; specific for flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/08 Speech classification or search
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/28 Constructional details of speech recognition systems

Abstract

Embodiments described herein pertain to a standardized set of tools for representing and exploring the components and characteristics of complex systems. In one embodiment, the tools are deployed in a computer network environment so as to engage a social network such that its members utilize the tools to collaboratively construct and maintain a dynamically evolving learning environment in which complexity is represented and explored.

Claims

1. A semiotic communication system, comprising:

a predefined color scheme comprising a plurality of colors each having a different assigned color meaning;

a predefined pattern scheme comprising a plurality of forms each having a different assigned pattern meaning; and

a structured visual ontological framework within which a set of the plurality of colors and forms are presented, the ontological framework comprising category segments representing a hierarchical arrangement of categories of forms of existence, the category segments including at least one human-oriented segment and at least one non-human oriented segment.

2. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is not user selected but instead is programmatically selected by a software engine based on generative computer code applied by a computer processor in response to one or more input variables.

3. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework as part of a representation of knowledge generated by the software engine based on computer code applied by a computer processor.

4. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework as part of an Internet browser based representation of knowledge.

5. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework such that the set appears as originating from a particular one of a plurality of segments of the ontological framework.

6. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework such that the set crosses into a human-centric portion of the ontological framework.

7. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is not statically presented within the ontological framework but instead is presented so as to be changing over time.

8. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is not statically presented within the ontological framework but instead is presented in motion so as to visually cross at least one segment boundary included within the ontological framework.

9. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, further comprising:

a predefined sound scheme comprising a plurality of sounds each having a different assigned sound meaning;

wherein a particular sound from the plurality of sounds is presented through a sound user interface at the same time as said plurality of colors and forms are presented within the structured visual ontological framework.

10. The communication system of claim 9, wherein a computer processor synchronizes said presentation of the particular sound through the sound interface with said presentation at the same time of the plurality of colors and forms.

16. The semiotic communication system of claim 1, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework such that the set crosses into a human-centric portion of the ontological framework.

11. A semiotic communication system, comprising:

a predefined multimedia pattern scheme comprising a plurality of multimedia elements each having a different assigned meaning; and

a structured visual ontological framework within which a set of the plurality of multimedia elements are presented, the ontological framework comprising category segments representing a hierarchical arrangement of categories of forms of existence, the category segments including at least one human-oriented segment and at least one non-human oriented segment.

12. The semiotic communication system of claim 11, wherein said set is not user selected but instead is programmatically selected by a software engine based on generative computer code applied by a computer processor in response to one or more input variables.

13. The semiotic communication system of claim 11, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework as part of a representation of knowledge generated by the software engine based on computer code applied by a computer processor.

14. The semiotic communication system of claim 11, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework as part of an Internet browser based representation of knowledge.

15. The semiotic communication system of claim 11, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework such that the set appears as originating from a particular one of a plurality of segments of the ontological framework.

17. A semiotic communication system, comprising:

a predefined motion scheme comprising a plurality of computer generated element movements each having a different assigned motion meaning;

a predefined color scheme comprising a plurality of colors each having a different assigned color meaning; and

a structured visual ontological framework within which a set of the plurality of colors and element movements are presented, the ontological framework comprising category segments representing a hierarchical arrangement of categories of forms of existence, the category segments including at least one human-oriented segment and at least one non-human oriented segment.

18. The semiotic communication system of claim 17, wherein said set is not user selected but instead is programmatically selected by a software engine based on generative computer code applied by a computer processor in response to one or more input variables.

19. The semiotic communication system of claim 17, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework as part of a representation of knowledge generated by the software engine based on computer code applied by a computer processor.

20. The semiotic communication system of claim 17, wherein said set is presented within said ontological framework as part of an Internet browser based representation of knowledge.