Method and apparatus for sorting information
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorGregory J. Wolff
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Abstract
A sorting technique in which a computer system or other data processing device interacts with a user to develop a spatial structure to represent information, such as a set of documents, according to a particular user's viewpoint. As a result of developing the spatial structure, and based on the structure, the system is able to sort other information, including its placement with respect to the other information in the spatial structure. The spatial structure also enables retrieval, searching and filtering information.
Claims44
A system-implemented method for sorting information comprising the system-implemented steps of:
- adjusting a similarity measure corresponding to and based on positioning, within a spatial arrangement of a plurality of documents representations on a display, in response to a user positioning a document representation within the spatial arrangement;
- presenting an additional document representation on the display;
- positioning the additional document representation on the display using the similarity measure.
An interactive method for sorting information comprising the system-implemented steps of:
- developing a spatial structure for a set of documents through interaction with a user positioning document representations, representing the set of documents, on a display based on the spatial structure to create a multi-dimensional document map;
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- adjusting a similarity measure corresponding to and based on positioning, within the spatial structure, of the document representations on the display, in response to a user positioning a document representation within the spatial structure.
A method for sorting information comprising:
- creating a spatial way out of a plurality of document representations on a display;
- identifying a similarity measure based on the spatial arrangement;
- adjusting the similarity measure in response to a change being made in the spatial arrangement due to a new placement of a document representation.
An apparatus for sorting information comprising:
- means for creating a spatial way out of a plurality of document representations on a display;
- means for identifying a similarity measure based on the spatial arrangement;
- and
- means for adjusting the similarity measure in response to a change being made in the spatial arrangement due to a new placement of a document representation.
A computer system product comprising a computer medium storing executable instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the system to:
- create a spatial way out of a plurality of document representations on a display;
- identify a similarity measure based on the spatial arrangement;
- adjust the similarity measure in response to a change being made in the spatial arrangement due to a new placement of a document representation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.