US 2014/0372956 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING AND ANALYZING LARGE NUMBERS OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

Abstract

The current document is directed to methods and systems for accessing, searching, analyzing, and visualizing electronically stored information, including electronic documents. These methods and systems construct graph-like representations of information searches that can be visualized and manipulated in three dimensions. The three-dimensional rendering of search results allows for very large numbers of search results to be visualized conveniently using a graphical user interface displayed on an electronic display device. Methods and systems provide for three-dimensional manipulation of graph-like renderings of search results, visualization-assisted searching, and a large number of research tools for discovering and storing various types of links, connections, and relationships between electronically stored information entities.

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Dependent claims

A document-searching system comprising:

a user device having at least one processor, one or more memories, a network interface, an electronic display, and processor instructions, stored in one or more of the one or more memories that, when executed on the processor, control the user device to
receive user input,
transmit requests to a remote server through the network interface, including document-search requests,
receive responses to the transmitted requests from the remote server through the network interface, including document search results, and
display a graphical user interface on the electronic display, the graphical user interface displaying
a graph-like three-dimensional representation of a document search process and corresponding search results, and
selection features that, when activated by user input, invoke document searches, rotate the graph-like three-dimensional representation, alter the three-dimensional representation, and invoke execution of graph queries input by the user and executed by remote server using a graph database.

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A document-searching method comprising:

providing a user device having at least one processor, one or more memories, a network interface, and an electronic display, the user device receiving user input, transmitting requests to a remote server through the network interface, including document-search requests, and receiving responses to the transmitted requests from the remote server through the network interface, including document search results;
displaying a graphical user interface on the electronic display that includes selection features that, when activated by user input, invoke document searches, rotate the graph-like three-dimensional representation, alter the three-dimensional representation, and invoke execution of graph queries input by the user and executed by remote server using a graph database;
and
in response to invocation of a document search, displaying a graph-like three-dimensional representation of a document search process and corresponding search results.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for searching and analyzing large numbers of electronic documents

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Method and system for searching and analyzing large numbers of electronic documents

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Abstract

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