Relationship view

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2006-10-10

2006-10-10

Hirl, Joseph P. (Department: 2129)

Data processing: artificial intelligence

Knowledge processing system

C706S011000, C706S020000, C709S203000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07120619

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a unique method and user interface that facilitates accessing and browsing objects in which a user begins with a center object (e.g., one or a few focal objects) displayed on a screen and related objects are populated on the screen as well. The related objects can be further organized into clusters whereby each cluster or grouping of objects expands on a particular attribute of the center object. The attributes correspond to metadata. Thus, the objects are populated based upon the metadata of the center object. According to one aspect, the user can access one or more specific objects having a plurality of attributes and then relax at least one of the attributes to see what other objects share at least one attribute with the center object. According to another aspect, the object having the closest match to a search request can be centrally displayed with other close matches arranged by their respective metadata.

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