Apparatus and method for displaying multiple display panels with a progressive relationship using cognitive pattern recognition

• US 9,772,999 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2011
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ImageScan, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ImageScan, Inc.
• Inventors: Krishnan, Basker S., Kateli, Hanoz J., Heesch, Bryan
• Primary Examiner(s): Featherstone, Mark D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gmahl, Navneet
• Application Number:
  US13/305,665
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,129 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

An apparatus and method for searching and displaying using cognitive pattern recognition including searching for document(s) with at least one search text, wherein each search text is associated with a highlight option; selecting to enable or disable the highlight option for each of the search text; displaying a progressive relationship of the document(s) in scaled common image format (CIF) by displaying: a first display presenting the document(s), wherein each of the document(s) includes all of the search text; a second display presenting only pages from the document(s) where the only pages presented include one or more of the search text with its associated highlight option enabled; and a third display presenting one page from the only pages wherein all occurrences of the search text where the highlight option for the search text is enabled are displayed simultaneously on the page.

Claims

1. A method for searching and displaying using cognitive pattern recognition comprising:

searching for at least one document with at least two search texts in a database of a plurality of documents, wherein each of the at least two search texts is associated with a highlight option;

selecting to enable or to disable the highlight option for each of the at least two search texts;

displaying a progressive relationship of the at least one document in scaled common image format (CIF), wherein displaying the progressive relationship includes displaying the following;

a first display presenting the at least one document, wherein each of the at least one document includes all of the at least two search texts;

a second display presenting only pages from the at least one document, wherein the only pages presented include one or more of the at least two search texts with its associated highlight option enabled; and

a third display presenting one page from the only pages with all occurrences of the at least two search texts where each of the highlight option for the at least two search texts is enabled are displayed simultaneously on the page;

wherein the first, second and third displays present the progressive relationship that the one page presented in the third display stems from the only pages presented in the second display and that the only pages in the second display stem from the at least one document presented in the first display, wherein the at least one document is a single document which is being displayed progressively and simultaneously.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one document does not include any document with an excluded text.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the only pages do not include any page with an excluded text.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one page is selected for presenting by a user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one document does not include any document with a first excluded text and the only pages do not include any page with a second excluded text, wherein the first excluded text is different from the second excluded text.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the only pages are all from a single document selected from the at least one document.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising selecting the single document from the at least one document for displaying in the second display.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the single document is visually differentiated in the first display from the remaining documents presented in the first display.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one page from the only pages is visually differentiated in the second display from the remaining only pages.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein all of the at least two search texts where the highlight option is enabled are displayed simultaneously on each of the only pages.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein when the highlight option is enabled, a color differentiation is added to the at least two search text texts associated with that highlight option.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching is based on one or more of the following:

an attribute, an attribute range or a special definition.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the special definition is a list of predefined synonyms.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the special definition is a list of predefined antonyms.

15. An apparatus for searching and displaying using cognitive pattern recognition, the apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, the memory containing program code executable by the processor for performing the following:

searching for at least one document with at least two search texts in a database of a plurality of documents, wherein each of the at least two search texts is associated with a highlight option;

selecting to enable or to disable the highlight option for each of the at least two search texts;

displaying a progressive relationship of the at least one document in scaled common image format (CIF), wherein displaying the progressive relationship includes displaying the following;

a first display presenting the at least one document, wherein each of the at least one document includes all of the two search texts;

a second display presenting only pages from the at least one document, wherein the only pages presented include one or more of the at least two search texts with its associated highlight option enabled; and

a third display presenting one page from the only pages with all occurrences of the at least two search texts where each of the highlight option for the at least two search texts is enabled are displayed simultaneously on the page;

wherein the first, second and third displays present the progressive relationship that the one page presented in the third display stems from the only pages presented in the second display and that the only pages in the second display stem from the at least one document presented in the first display, wherein the at least one document is a single document which is being displayed progressively and simultaneously.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the at least one document does not include any document with an excluded text.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the only pages do not include any page with an excluded text.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the one page is selected for presenting by a user.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the at least one document does not include any document with a first excluded text and the only pages do not include any page with a second excluded text, wherein the first excluded text is different from the second excluded text.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the only pages are all from a single document selected from the at least one document.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the memory further comprising program code for selecting the single document from the at least one document for displaying in the second display.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the single document is visually differentiated in the first display from the remaining documents presented in the first display.

23. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the one page from the only pages is visually differentiated in the second display from the remaining only pages.

24. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein all of the at least two search texts where the highlight option is enabled are displayed simultaneously on each of the only pages.

25. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein when the highlight option is enabled, a color differentiation is added to the at least two search texts associated with that highlight option.

26. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the searching is based on one or more of the following:

an attribute, an attribute range or a special definition.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the special definition is a list of predefined synonyms.

28. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the special definition is a list of predefined antonyms.