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US 8,788,974 B2Granted
Neighborhood auditing tool and user interface
AssigneeNew Jersey Institute of Technology
InventorsYehoshua Perl, James Geller
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Abstract
Techniques are described that generally relate to systems, methods, and devices designed to facilitate the auditing of ontologies. Example methods may be designed so that the neighborhood concepts for a selected focus concept may be automatically displayed in a hybrid display that efficiently uses display area, while the concepts may be generally presented in an easy-to-comprehend format.
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A computer-implemented method to generate a display image to audit an ontology, the method comprising:
- selecting a concept in the ontology with the computer device to provide a currently selected focus concept;
- formatting in a first window region of the display image the currently selected focus concept;
- formatting in a second window region of the display image first ontological concepts consisting of parent concepts that are one level of hierarchy higher than the currently selected focus concept in the ontology, and wherein the second window region is located above the first window region and includes the first ontological concepts in a first scrollable text window;
- formatting in a third window region of the display image second ontological concepts consisting of child concepts that are one level of hierarchy lower than the currently selected focus concept in the ontology, and wherein the third window region is located below the first window region and includes the second ontological concepts in a second scrollable text window;
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- formatting in a fourth window region of the display image multiple lateral relationships' target concepts, wherein the lateral relationships' target concepts are laterally associated via a lateral relationship with the currently selected focus concept in the ontology, wherein the fourth window region is along a horizontal axis of the first window region and includes the lateral relationships' target concepts in a third scrollable text window, and wherein the first, second, third, and fourth window regions are distinct from one another and formatted for concurrent viewing.
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An apparatus effective to generate a display image to audit one or more concepts in an ontology, the apparatus comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium arranged to store computer-readable instructions;
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- a processor that is configured by the computer-readable instructions from the computer-readable storage medium to:
- select a concept in the ontology as a currently selected focus concept;
- identify first ontological concepts consisting of parent concepts in the ontology that are one level of hierarchy higher than the currently selected focus concept as higher concepts;
- identify second ontological concepts consisting of child concepts one level of hierarchy lower than the currently selected focus concept as lower concepts;
- identify multiple concepts laterally associated with the currently selected focus concept as lateral relationships' target concepts;
- define a first window region, a second window region located above the first window region with a first scrollable text window, a third window region located below the first window region with a second scrollable text window, and a fourth window region located along a horizontal axis of the first window region with a third scrollable text window of the display image;
- generate content in the first defined window region to include the currently selected focus concept;
- generate content in the first scrollable text window of the second defined window region for the first ontological concepts in the ontology;
- generate content in the second scrollable text window of the third defined window region for the second ontological concepts;
- generate content in the third scrollable text window of the fourth defined window region for multiple lateral relationships' target concepts in the ontology;
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- render the display image such that the first, second, third, and fourth defined window regions are concurrently rendered distinct from one another in the display image.
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A computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions for generating a display image to audit one or more concepts in an ontology, the computer-executable instructions comprising:
- selecting a focus concept in the ontology as a currently selected focus concept;
- identifying first ontological concepts consisting of parent concepts in the ontology that are one level of hierarchy higher than the currently selected focus concept as higher concepts;
- identifying second ontological concepts consisting of child concepts in the ontology that are one level of hierarchy lower than the currently selected focus concept as lower concepts;
- identifying multiple concepts in the ontology that are laterally associated with the currently selected focus concept as lateral relationships' target concepts;
- defining a first window region, a second window region located above the first window region with a first scrollable text window, a third window region located below the first window region with a second scrollable text window, and a fourth window region located along a horizontal axis of the first window region of the display image with a third scrollable text window;
- generating content in the first defined window region to include the currently selected focus concept;
- generating content in the first scrollable text window of the second defined window region for the first ontological concepts;
- generating content in the second scrollable text window of the third defined window region for the second ontological concepts;
- generating content in the third scrollable text window of the fourth defined window region for multiple lateral relationships' target concepts;
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- rendering the display image such that the first, second, third, and fourth defined window regions are concurrently rendered distinct from one another in the display image.
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