System for displaying graphical narrations

• US 8,694,506 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2010
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lifethreads, LLC
• Original Assignee: Lifethreads, LLC
• Inventors: Osborne, Brian, Snoke, Tim, Kutscher, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US13/508,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246121A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,279 Days
• Field of Search: 707/740, 707/782
• US Class Current: 707/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/287 Visualization; Browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• 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 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

An online network collects a dataset of an individual'"'"'s information through a computer-implemented method. An individual enters a dataset of the information and a plurality of an individual'"'"'s life events into a computer system. The dataset is arranged and converted into a graphical representation for display. The online database receives and stores the dataset. The database associates the dataset with the plurality of the member'"'"'s life events and then the dataset and the life events are outputted into the graphical representation for display for a witness.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for arranging and converting a dataset into a graphical representation for display, the method comprising:

entering a dataset of a first member'"'"'s information and a plurality of the first member'"'"'s life events into a computer system;

entering a dataset of a second member'"'"'s information and a plurality of the second member'"'"'s life events into a computer system;

receiving the dataset into a database;

storing the dataset into the database;

wherein the database associating the dataset with the plurality of life events; and

the dataset and the life events being outputted into the graphical representation for display as a life thread for the member and the second member and interconnections therebetween.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of a witness entering a comment on one of the plurality of life events, and storing the comment in the database.

3. A method according to claim 2, further comprising the step of validating the comment.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein validating the comment comprises comparing the comment to documentary evidence.

5. A method of displaying a graphical narration of an interaction of first and second individuals, comprising:

storing in a first set of database locations a first plurality of events related to the first individual;

ordering the first plurality of events in a first chronological order;

storing in a second set of database locations a second plurality of events related to the second individual;

ordering the second plurality of events in a second chronological order;

linking at least one of the first plurality of events to one of the at least one of the second plurality of events, displaying the first plurality of events as a first life thread;

displaying a second plurality of events as a second life thread; and

displaying the links between the first and second life threads.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the linking of at least one of the first plurality of events to one of the at least one of the second plurality of events is the first individual giving attribution to at least one of the second plurality of events.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the linking of at least one of the first plurality of events to one of the at least second plurality of events is linking the events with a linking piece of documentary evidence.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the documentary evidence is one of mobile electronic device positional data, the interaction with the computer network, and a publically available document.

9. The method according to claim 5, wherein the first plurality of events comprises a life event.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the life event is one of a birth, graduation, marriage, and death.

11. The method according to claim 5, wherein the first plurality of events is entered by the first individual.