US 2018/0004825 A1 · SYSTEM AND USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCHING RESOURCES AND RELATED DOCUMENTS USING DATA STRUCTURES

Abstract

Various systems and methods are provided for accessing and traversing one or more data structures and generating a functional user interface that can enable non-technical users to quickly and dynamically search for resources of an organization and/or associated documents, events, entities, and/or other data. The user interfaces are interactive such that a user may make selections, provide inputs, and/or manipulate outputs. In response to various user inputs, the system automatically accesses and traverses data structures relating to resources, documents, events, entities, and other data, identifies resources, documents, events, entities, and/or other data that meet search criteria, and returns search results including resources that meet the search criteria and/or resources that are associated with documents, events, entities, and/or other data that meet the search criteria. Resources, documents, events, entities, and other data can be represented by respective types of data structures, which may be associated with other types of data structures. Properties or fields of data structures can have security settings and permissions associated with them.

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Dependent claims

A computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors configured to execute software code stored in a tangible storage device to cause the computer system to:
generate a user interface configured to display indications of resources and attributes associated with the resources;
in response to a first user input, received via the user interface, indicating an exclusion of a first one or more attributes:
filter the resources to a first subset that does not include the first one or more attributes;
and
update the user interface to display the first subset and to visually indicate exclusion of the first one or more attributes;
and
in response to determining that at least one of the attributes is not associated with any resources of the first subset, disallow both selection and exclusion, via the user interface, of the at least one of the attributes, whereby a filtering to zero resources is prevented.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

by one or more computer processors configured to execute software code stored in a tangible storage device:
generating a user interface configured to display indications of resources and attributes associated with the resources;
in response to a first user input, received via the user interface, indicating an exclusion of a first one or more attributes:
filtering the resources to a first subset that does not include the first one or more attributes;
and
updating the user interface to display the first subset and to visually indicate exclusion of the first one or more attributes;
and
in response to determining that at least one of the attributes is not associated with any resources of the first subset, disallowing both selection and exclusion, via the user interface, of the at least one of the attributes, whereby a filtering to zero resources is prevented.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and user interfaces for searching resources and related documents using data structures

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System and user interfaces for searching resources and related documents using data structures

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Abstract

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