Knowledge discovery tool navigation

• US 20060179067A1
• Filed: 02/04/2005
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Bechtel, Michael E., Mathur, Sanjay, Arago, Jordi
• Application Number:
  US11/051,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20060179067A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results

Abstract

A system including a knowledge model is provided. The system includes an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model. The interface includes a method that accepts a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an entity of the knowledge model. The method also includes presenting, in response to the acceptance, a second interface item, the second interface item associated with a second entity of the knowledge model, wherein the second entity has a relationship with the selected entity and the relationship has a relationship type selected from the group consisting of a direct relationship type or a derived relationship type. Finally, the method also includes presenting a relationship indicia representative of the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.

Claims

1. In an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model, a method comprising:

accepting a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an entity of the knowledge model;

presenting, in response to the accepting, a second interface item, the second interface item associated with a second entity of the knowledge model, the second entity having a relationship with the selected entity, the relationship having a relationship type selected from the group consisting of a direct relationship type or a derived relationship type; and

presenting a relationship indicia representative of the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the relationship indicia is indicative of the relationship type.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the relationship indicia includes a color selected from the group consisting of a first color representative of a direct relationship type and a second color representative of a derived relationship type.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the relationship indicia includes a font selected from the group consisting of a first font representative of a direct relationship and a second font representative of a derived relationship.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the relationship indicia includes a size selected from the group consisting of a first size representative of a direct relationship and a second size representative of a derived relationship.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the direct relationship type further includes a relationship sub-type selected from the group consisting of a field-to-field relationship sub-type and a field-to-text relationship sub-type.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the relationship indicia is indicative of the relationship sub-type.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the relationship indicia includes a color selected from the group consisting of a first color representative of a field-to-field relationship sub-type and a second color representative of a field-to-text relationship sub-type.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the derived relationship type further includes a relationship sub-type selected from the group consisting of a transitive relationship sub-type and a proximity relationship sub-type.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the relationship indicia is indicative of the relationship sub-type.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the relationship indicia includes a color selected from the group consisting of a first color representative of a transitive relationship sub-type and a second color representative of a proximity relationship sub-type.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein the relationship indicia includes a line selected from the group comprising a solid line, a dashed line, a dotted line, and a dashed and dotted line.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the relationship indicia includes a line selected from the group comprising a solid line, a dashed line, a dotted line, and a dashed and dotted line.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the relationship indicia includes a line selected from the group comprising a solid line, a dashed line, a dotted line, and a dashed and dotted line.

15. In an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model, a method comprising:

accepting a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an entity of the knowledge model;

presenting, in response to the accepting, a second interface item, the second interface item associated with a second entity of the knowledge model, the second entity having a relationship with the selected entity, the relationship having a relationship type selected from the group consisting of a direct relationship type or a derived relationship type; and

presenting a relationship indicia representative of the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the relationship indicia is indicative of the relationship type.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the relationship indicia includes a color selected from the group consisting of a first color representative of a direct relationship type and a second color representative of a derived relationship type.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the relationship indicia includes a font selected from the group consisting of a first font representative of a direct relationship and a second font representative of a derived relationship.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the relationship indicia includes a size selected from the group consisting of a first size representative of a direct relationship and a second size representative of a derived relationship.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the direct relationship type further includes a relationship sub-type selected from the group consisting of a field-to-field relationship sub-type and a field-to-text relationship sub-type.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the relationship indicia is indicative of the relationship sub-type.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the relationship indicia includes a color 21 selected from the group consisting of a first color representative of a field-to-field relationship sub-type and a second color representative of a field-to-text relationship sub-type.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the derived relationship type further includes a relationship sub-type selected from the group consisting of a transitive relationship sub-type and a proximity relationship sub-type.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the relationship indicia is indicative of the relationship sub-type.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the relationship indicia includes a color selected from the group consisting of a first color representative of a transitive relationship sub-type and a second color representative of a proximity relationship sub-type.

26. The method of claim 16, wherein the relationship indicia includes a line selected from the group comprising a solid line, a dashed line, a dotted line, and a dashed and dotted line.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein the relationship indicia includes a line selected from the group comprising a solid line, a dashed line, a dotted line, and a dashed and dotted line.

28. The method of claim 24, wherein the relationship indicia includes a line selected from the group comprising a solid line, a dashed line, a dotted line, and a dashed and dotted line.

29. In a system for presenting a relationship between at least two entities of a knowledge model, each entity having an entity type, the relationship having a relationship type selected from, the system including a plurality of display areas for presenting data representative of at least one entity of the knowledge model, the at least one entity having one of a plurality of entity types, a method comprising:

accepting a first user input representative of a configuration of the plurality of display areas;

accepting a second user input representative of an entity filter, the entity filter specifying certain data items to be displayed in a selected display area; and

accepting a third user input representative of a relationship type filter, the relationship type filter specifying a subset of relationship types, the system only presenting relationships specified by the relationship type filter.