Method and apparatus for electronic documents retrieving, displaying document clusters representing relationship with events

A machine-readable medium having executable code to cause a machine to perform a method for retrieving electronic documents, the method comprising:

• determining a time period associated with an event;
• identifying one or more documents previously stored in a storage within the time period, at least one of the one or more documents being associated with the event;
• and
• displaying graphical representations of the one or more documents chronologically in a manner representing the time period, the graphical representations being spatially arranged into one or more clusters representing relationships with the event, each cluster being associated with at least one of the one or more documents, and each of the graphical representations including a link linking the corresponding graphical representation with at least one of the one or more documents, wherein the at least one document is retrievable in response to an activation of the link.

An apparatus for retrieving electronic documents, comprising:

• means for determining a time period associated with an event;
• means for identifying one or more documents previously stored in a storage within the time period, at least one of the one or more documents being associated with the event;
• and
• means for displaying graphical representations of the one or more documents chronologically in a manner representing the time period, the graphical representations being spatially arranged into one or more clusters representing relationships with the event, each cluster being associated with at least one of the one or more documents, and each of the graphical representations including a link linking the corresponding graphical representation with at least one of the one or more documents, wherein the at least one document is retrievable in response to an activation of the link.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions that causes the processor to perform the operations of presenting a presentation, the operations including:
• determining a time period associated with an event;
• identifying one or more documents previously stored in a storage within the time period, at least one of the one or more documents being associated with the event;
• and
• displaying graphical representations of the one or more documents chronologically in a manner representing the time period, the graphical representations being spatially arranged into one or more clusters representing relationships with the event, each cluster being associated with at least one of the one or more documents, and each of the graphical representations including a link linking the corresponding graphical representation with at least one of the one or more documents, wherein the at least one document is retrievable in response to an activation of the link.