Enterprise, stream-based, information management system

• US 20020055946A1
• Filed: 06/26/2001
• Published: 05/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mirror Worlds, LLC
• Original Assignee: Recognition Interface, Inc.
• Inventors: Prager, Randy, Sparago, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 6,768,999 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/500
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/0616 Football or soccer
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/0676 Play figures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

Disclosed is a computer program product and method that operate an enterprise information system of at least one server and a number or personal computers communicating with each other and with the server. The program product and method create object models that have a consistent structure from and about information assets that are of diverse types and come from diverse software, and display browse cards about the information assets in a time-ordered stream, together with glance views related to the document object models. The glance views are displayed essentially in real time in response to passing a cursor over respective browse cards on the display.

Claims

1. A method of operating an enterprise information management system comprising at least one server and a number of personal computers selectively communicating with each other comprising:

creating document object models comprising selected information from and about information assets of diverse types, created by diverse software, said document object models having a consistent structure;

displaying browse cards related to respective ones of the information assets in a time-ordered stream, together with glance views related to the document object models of the respective displayed documents, said glance views being displayed essentially in real time in response to passing a cursor over respective ones of the browse cards.