System for displaying graphical narrations

• US 9,996,598 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2015
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• 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:
  US14/856,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20160012114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: 707740, 707782, 707709-710, 707732, 707770, 707804-805, 709201, 709203, 709213, 709219, 709250
• 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 receiving, arranging and converting data stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium into a graphical representation for display, the method comprising:

receiving and storing in a computer system a first set of data concerning a plurality of life events that have occurred in a first person'"'"'s life;

receiving and storing in a computer system a second set of data concerning a plurality of life events that have occurred in a second person'"'"'s life;

selectively generating links between events of the first person and events of the second person based upon geographic location data associated with the first person and geographic location data associated with the second person, by generating a link between a particular life event of the first person and a particular life event of the second person if the geographic location data associated with the particular life event of the first person corresponds to the geographic location data associated with the particular life event of the second person;

chronologically ordering the plurality of life events of the first person;

causing the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person to be displayed;

causing the links between life events of the first person and life events of the second person to be displayed in association with the display of the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person;

chronologically ordering the plurality of life events of the second person; and

causing the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person to be displayed.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the link is generated only if time data associated with the particular life event of the first person corresponds to time data associated with the particular life event of the second person.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said geographic location data is acquired using GPS data transmitted from a mobile electronic device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein data concerning a plurality of life events includes media, including at least one of photo, video and audio.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising the step of causing the links between events of the first person and events of the second person to be displayed in association with the display of the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person and the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person are displayed concurrently.

7. A computer-implemented method for arranging and converting data stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium into a graphical representation for display, the method comprising:

receiving and storing in a computer system a first set of data concerning a plurality of life events that have occurred in a first person'"'"'s life;

receiving and storing in a computer system a second set of data concerning a plurality of life events that have occurred in a second person'"'"'s life;

selectively generating a link between an event of the first person and an event of the second person based upon receipt of an attribution by the first person to at least one of the life events of the second person;

chronologically ordering the plurality of life events of the first person;

causing the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person to be displayed;

causing the links between events of the first person and events of the second person to be displayed in association with the display of the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person;

chronologically ordering the plurality of life events of the second person; and

causing the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person to be displayed.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein data concerning a plurality of life events includes media, including at least one of photo, video and audio.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising the step of causing the links between events of the first person and events of the second person to be displayed in association with the display of the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person and the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person are displayed concurrently.

11. A computer-implemented method for arranging and converting data stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium into a graphical representation for display, the method comprising:

receiving and storing in a computer system a first set of data concerning a plurality of life events that have occurred in a first person'"'"'s life;

receiving and storing in a computer system a second set of data concerning a plurality of life events that have occurred in a second person'"'"'s life;

selectively generating a link between an event of the first person and an event of the second person based upon a linking document;

chronologically ordering the plurality of life events of the first person;

causing the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person to be displayed;

causing the links between events of the first person and events of the second person to be displayed in association with the display of the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person;

chronologically ordering the plurality of life events of the second person; and

causing the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person to be displayed, further comprising the step of causing the link between the life event of the first person and the life event of the second person to be displayed in association with the display of the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person and wherein the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the first person and the chronologically-ordered plurality of life events of the second person are displayed concurrently.