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US 9,519,693 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for displaying data element axes
Assignee9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
InventorsMathieu Audet, Francois Cassistat
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Abstract
An aspect of the invention hereby presented provides a means to display a first set of, for instance, documents in conjunction with a second set of documents when the second set of documents would not necessarily fit in the query used to select the documents of the first set of documents and/or would not necessarily fit the collation of the first set of documents. The second set of documents so located in relationship with the first set of documents having a beneficial effect for the understanding of the first set of documents. A system and a GUI thereof is also hereby presented.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computer system, cause the computer system to perform operations for displaying an array of time-stamped user-selectable elements on a display, the operations comprising:
- selecting a first set of user-selectable elements on a basis of a first filtering criterion;
- using a first chronological order for ordering the selected first set of user-selectable elements;
- selecting a second set of user-selectable elements on a basis of an association with a reference computer-readable element from the first set of user-selectable elements;
- selecting an ordering of the second set of user-selectable elements;
- identifying a position along the ordering of the first set of user-selectable elements for locating and interleaving the second set of user-selectable elements within the first set of user-selectable elements along the axis of user-selectable elements in conjunction with the reference user-selectable element from the first chronologically ordered set of user-selectable elements;
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- displaying a combined set of user-selectable elements including the first set of user-selectable elements and the interleaved second set of user-selectable elements in an axis of user-selectable elements displaying the user-selectable elements in a single line of user-selectable elements disposed in a substantially rectilinear formation corresponding with the first chronological order, the first set of user-selectable elements being ordered on a basis of the first chronological order, wherein the second set of user-selectable elements is displayed on a basis of the identified position along the first ordered set of user-selectable elements in graphical juxtaposition with the reference user-selectable element, the second set of time-stamped user-selectable elements being anachronically ordered in respect with the first chronological order of the first set of user-selectable elements.
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A computerized system configured to read computer-executable instructions adapted to enable a program enabling an interface adapted to order and display computer-readable files, the computerized system comprising:
- a processing unit configured to process the computer executable instructions;
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- a display configured to display the interface;
- the program, when executed, being operative to:
- select a first set of user-selectable elements on a basis of a first filtering criterion;
- using a first chronological order for ordering the selected first set of user-selectable elements;
- select a second set of user-selectable elements on a basis of an association with a reference computer-readable element from the first set of user-selectable elements;
- select and ordering of the second set of user-selectable elements;
- identify a position along the ordering of the first set user-selectable elements for locating and interleaving the second set of user-selectable elements within the first set of user-selectable elements along the axis of user-selectable elements in conjunction with the reference user-selectable element from the first chronologically ordered set of user-selectable elements;
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- display a combined set of user-selectable elements including of the first set of user-selectable elements and the interleaved second set of user-selectable elements in an axis of user-selectable elements displaying the user-selectable elements in a single line of user-selectable elements disposed in a substantially rectilinear formation corresponding with the first chronological order, the first set of user-selectable elements being ordered on a basis of the first chronological order, wherein the second set of user-selectable elements is displayed on a basis of the identified position along the first ordered set of user-selectable elements in graphical juxtaposition with the reference user-selectable element, the second set of time-stamped user-selectable elements being anachronically ordered in respect with the first chronological order of the first set of user-selectable elements.
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A method of combining a plurality of sets of documents on a display, the method comprising:
- selecting a first set of user-selectable elements on a basis of a first filtering criterion;
- selecting a second set of user-selectable elements on a basis of an association with a reference computer-readable element from the first set of user-selectable elements;
- selecting an ordering of the second set of user-selectable elements;
- identifying a position along the chronological order of the first set of user-selectable elements for locating and interleaving the second set of user-selectable elements within the first set of user-selectable elements on an axis of user-selectable elements in conjunction with the reference user-selectable element from the first chronologically ordered set of user-selectable elements;
- displaying and ordering the first set of user-selectable elements in accordance with an order defined on a basis of a first collation function;
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- displaying a combined set of user-selectable elements including of the first set of user-selectable elements and the interleaved second set of user-selectable elements on the axis of user-selectable elements displaying the user-selectable elements in a single line of user-selectable elements disposed in a substantially rectilinear formation corresponding with the first chronological order, the first set of user-selectable elements being ordered on a basis of the first chronological order wherein the second set of user-selectable elements is displayed on a basis of the identified position along the first ordered set of user-selectable elements in graphical juxtaposition with the reference user-selectable element, the user-selectable elements of the second set of time-stamped user-selectable elements being anachronically ordered in respect with the first chronological order of the first set of user-selectable elements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.