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Method and device for finding, collecting and acting upon units of information
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Inventors: Ridgley, Brad; Lucente, II, Samuel A.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Sax; Steven
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.
An information interface and method for finding, collecting and acting upon information which has been arranged in hierarchical form. In its best mode of implementation, the interface has a display area with four components: a content area for showing units of information at a particular level in a hierarchy, a context area for showing the information node which is parent to the displayed level of units, an identity area for showing the sequence of such parents in the user's navigation history through the information relative to the currently displayed level, and a desire area for the user to collect and act upon desired units of information. The method of the invention provides two functions: one for clarification, for navigating the hierarchy of information, moving forward and backward through the nodes and branches; and a second for memorization, for collecting desired units of information and then acting upon them. The invention further provides overlay modes, using the clarification and memorization functions, for identifying properties usable for limiting content displayed during clarification, and for providing alternative choices for acting upon memorized units of information. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a more efficient means for interacting with information.
It is a further object of the invention to enable a user of information to quickly find and display information, and then to perform actions on the information.
It is also an object of the invention to seamlessly integrate computer functions and a user interface.
Another object of the invention is to provide an interface to information which is implicit and transparent, enabling the user to focus on the actual data.
It is also an object of the invention to overcome the distractions of the mechanics of manipulating the interface and limit the disruptions between human thought and computer functions.
Yet another object of the invention is to create an implicit means for navigating through information, orienting with respect to information, creating new information, and acting upon information.
A further object of the invention to allow the human user to easily make associations between information units, group information units, and act upon information units.
It is also an object of the invention to decrease the need for conventional graphical user interface devices such as tool bars, menus and icons.
It is a further object of the invention to present information to the user in a manner that complements the user's natural thought processes about the information.
Another object of the invention is to extend to humans the power of the computer to retrieve, store and process vast amounts of information.
A further object of the invention is to provide means for handling information which are compatible with existing database means for organizing and storing information.
It is also an object of the invention to integrate information navigation and retrieval techniques with the accomplishment of practical results beyond information retrieval and visualization.
The invention provides an intuitive and simple method for packaging and dispensing a body of information which has been structured into a hierarchy of component units of information, the hierarchy being multi-hierarchical and having layers, where a unit in one layer can be related to a subordinate layer and a layer can be related to a superior unit in another layer
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