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US 2014/0229872 A1Published application
System and method for creating and displaying data_ties
OwnerJ. Douglas Johnsoninventor
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A system and method for creating, storing and retrieving, and displaying user-created data_ties (a data_tie is a user-created relationship between two items the user had previously saved). The purpose of the invention is to provide the user a way to not only see the data he has saved, but to provide him a way to graphically display the relationships he has made between pieces of Evidence. The present invention is particularly adapted to tablet computers, notepads, etc. with touchscreens. A feature of the present invention is the ability to manually slide one icon on top of a second icon thereby creating a data_tie between the two pieces of data, or evidence. In various embodiments of the invention, this relationship can be annotated with context to later relate why and how the two pieces of data were connected.
On a computer having a touch sensitive screen that can display icons representing data objects, where icons can be dragged and dropped, a system for managing relationships between data objects comprising:
On a computer having a touch sensitive display screen that can display icons representing data objects, where icons can be dragged and dropped, a system for managing relationships between data objects comprising:
On a computer having a display screen that can display icons representing data objects, where icons can be dragged and dropped, a system for managing relationships between data objects comprising:
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