Interactive portal for facilitating the representation and exploration of complexity

• US 9,965,160 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2014
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• 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): Thangavelu, Kandasamy
• Application Number:
  US14/278,500
• Publication Number:
  US 20140250400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• 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 computer system for providing a visual interface based on a complex system, the computer system comprising:

a memory configured to store—

a multi-level model framework of the complex system comprising a plurality of ontologically organized cells, each ontologically organized cell comprising a relationship to at least one other ontologically organized cell at a different level of the multi-level model framework, and

a multi-scale representation defining instructions for rendering the multi-level model framework at a plurality of levels including patterns of color and motion for rendering within and among the ontologically organized cells to represent the relationships between the ontologically organized cells; and

an engine configured to visually render an instantiation of the multi-level model framework and the multi-scale representation on a computer display device, such that a rendered depiction of each of the ontologically organized cells is configured to enable a user to navigate to a different level of the plurality of levels within the multi-scale representation.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the instantiation rendered on the computer display device is a browser based representation.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the patterns of color and motion are configured to change in response to the user'"'"'s selection of one or more of the ontologically organized cells.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the rendered depiction of at least one of the ontologically organized cells is configured to automatically re-size in response to a user input.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the patterns of color and motion are configured to change automatically over time.

6. The computer system of claim 1, further comprising a video component also rendered on the computer display device, the video component showing one or more videos synchronized with one or more of the patterns of color and motion.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the patterns of color and motion are collaboratively modifiable patterns of color and motion.

8. The computer system of claim 1, wherein each of the ontologically organized cells represents an assigned variable, and wherein the rendered depiction of each of the ontologically organized cells is rendered into a distinct and unique visual configuration such that the ontologically organized cell is recognizable by a user.

9. The computer system of claim 1, further comprising an audio component also rendered through the computing device, the audio component providing an audio output synchronized with one of the patterns of color and motion.

10. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the patterns of color and motion within certain cells are configured to change based upon software calls.

11. A computer system for providing a visual interface based on a complex system, the computer system comprising:

a memory configured to store—

a multi-level model framework of the complex system comprising a plurality of ontologically organized cells, each ontologically organized cell comprising a relationship to at least one other ontologically organized cell at a different level of the multi-level model framework, and

a multi-scale representation defining instructions for rendering the multi-level model framework at a plurality of levels including patterns of color and motion for rendering within and among the ontologically organized cells to represent relationships within the ontologically organized cells;

an engine configured to visually render an instantiation of the multi-scale model framework and the multi-scale representation on a computer display device, such that a rendered depiction of each of the ontologically organized cells is configured to enable a user to navigate to a different level of the plurality of levels within the multi-scale representation;

one or more user-driven tools configured to enable a plurality of collaborators to modify the multi-scale representation such that each user of the plurality of collaborators can select which colors are included in the patterns and how they are distributed among the ontologically organized cells.

12. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the instantiation rendered on the computer display device is a browser based representation.

13. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the patterns of color and motion change in response to the user'"'"'s selection of one or more of the ontologically organized cells.

14. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the rendered depiction of at least one of the ontologically organized cells is configured to automatically re-size in response to a user input.

15. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the patterns of color and motion are configured to change automatically over time.

16. The computer system of claim 11, further comprising a video component also rendered on the computer display device, the video component showing one or more videos synchronized with one or more of the patterns of color and motion.

17. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the patterns of color and motion are collaboratively modifiable patterns of color and motion.

18. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the user driven tools are web-based tools such that each one of the plurality of collaborators is able to access the multi-scale representation by way of a web browser to provide inputs that modify the patterns.

19. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the user-driven tools are remotely accessible, such that each one of the plurality of collaborators is able to remotely access and modify the multi-scale representation.

20. The computer system of claim 11, wherein each of the ontologically organized cells represents an assigned variable, and wherein the rendered depiction of each of the ontologically organized cells is rendered into a distinct and unique visual configuration such that the ontologically organized cell is recognizable by a user.