System for displaying graphical narrations

• US 9,141,649 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2014
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• 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:
  US14/230,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20140214905A1
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: 707/740, 707/782, 707709-710, 707/732, 707/770, 707804-805, 709/201, 709/203, 709/213, 709/219, 709/250
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 captured in a nontransferable readable medium into a graphical representation for display, the method comprising:

receiving a dataset of a first person'"'"'s information and a plurality of the first person'"'"'s life events in a database of a computer system;

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

storing the dataset into the database;

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

outputting the dataset and the life events into the graphical representation for display as a life thread for the first person and the second person and interconnections therebetween.

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

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

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

5. A computer-implemented 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;

chronologically ordering the first plurality of events into a first order;

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

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

linking at least one of the first plurality of events to one of the at least one of the second plurality of events;

providing the first plurality of events to be displayed as a first life thread;

providing the second plurality of events to be displayed as a second life thread; and

providing links between the first and second life threads to be displayed on at least the first life thread.

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

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

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

12. A computer-implemented method for arranging and converting a dataset captured in a nontransferable readable medium into a graphical representation for display, the method comprising:

receiving from a first operator a dataset of a first person'"'"'s information and a plurality of the first person'"'"'s life events into a computer system;

receiving from a second operator a dataset of a second person'"'"'s information and a plurality of the second person'"'"'s life events into a computer system;

storing the dataset into the database;

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

outputting the first person'"'"'s life events into the graphical representation for display as a first life thread;

outputting the second person'"'"'s life events into the graphical representation for display as a second life thread; and

outputting into the graphical representation of at least one of the first and second life threads interconnections between the first life thread and the second lifethread.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the step of receiving from a third operator a comment related to the plurality of life events, and storing the comment in the database.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of validating the comment.

15. The method according to claim 13 wherein the third operator is the first person.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein validating the comment comprises comparing the comment to documentary evidence.

17. The method according to claim 12 wherein the first operator is the first person.