INTERACTIVE EVENT-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEM

• US 20140013233A1
• Filed: 04/04/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Recorded Future, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Staffan Truve
• Inventors: Ahlberg, Christopher, Wistrand, Erik, Thoresson, Johan, Truv, Staffan, Weilenmann, Kaspar, Sparud, Jan
• Granted Patent: US 10,908,792 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/739
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

In one general aspect, an interactive event-based information system is disclosed that includes an event-based data store for storing information about events selectively extracted from a plurality of machine-readable information sources. A live feed extraction interface is responsive to the event-based data store and has a feed publication output operative to publish a live feed of selected information about events. A live event feed user interface includes a live feed display interface operative to present a succession of visual information elements corresponding to events covered in the live event feed, and a drill-down interface responsive to user interaction to provide access to further information about the information elements from the data store.

Claims

1. An interactive event-based information system, including:

an event-based data store for storing information about events selectively extracted from a plurality of machine-readable information sources,

a live feed extraction interface responsive to the event-based data store and having a feed publication output operative to publish a live feed of selected information about events, and

a live event feed user interface, including

a live feed display interface operative to present a succession of visual information elements corresponding to events covered in the live event feed, and

a drill-down interface responsive to user interaction to provide access to further information about the information elements from the data store.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the live event feed user interface further includes an analysis publication input responsive to user input to add information to the event-based data store for publication to the live event feed.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the system includes analysis authoring tools responsive to user interaction to insert references to information about events in the data store to the added information.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the live-feed display interface presents a continuous succession of story items.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the drill-down interface includes a story-item-based drill-down tool.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the drill-down interface includes a map-based drill-down tool.

7. A method of interacting with event-based information;

comprising;

storing event-based information,

continuously selecting and extracting information about events from the stored event-based information,

continuously publishing the extracted information as a live event stream,

receiving drill-down input from users that reference the published information in the event stream, and

providing access to further stored event-based information stored in the step of storing in response to the drill-down input.

8. The method of claim 7 further including receiving analysis items from users and publishing them to the event stream.