Visually representing concepts and relationships on an electronic interface for delivered content

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11600362-B2
Application number	US-202017039284-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2020
Priority date	Sep 30, 2020
Publication date	Mar 7, 2023
Grant date	Mar 7, 2023

Abstract

A computer distinguishes relationships among concepts of conveyance contained within delivered content. The computer receives several of concepts of conveyance and determines a first visual identification indicia for a first of the concepts, with the first visual identification indicia being characterized by a first combination of appearance style elements selected from a group of visual attribute categories. The appearance style elements have sufficient visual contrast relative to one another to represent distinguishable relationships among individual concepts of conveyance, pairs of concepts of conveyance and multiple concepts of conveyance that are overlapping. The computer iteratively determines a visual identification indicia for each concepts of conveyance. The visual identification indicia are characterized by a unique corresponding combination of appearance style elements selected from the visual attribute categories. The computer presents a visualization of concepts of conveyance in a manner that distinguishes relationships among the concepts of conveyance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method to distinguish relationships among concepts of conveyance contained within delivered content, said process comprising:
receiving, by said computer, a plurality of concepts of conveyance;
responsive to receiving said plurality of concepts of conveyance, determining, by said computer, a first visual identification indicia for a first of said plurality of concepts, said first visual identification indicia being characterized by a first combination of appearance style elements selected from a plurality of visual attribute categories, wherein said appearance style elements (ASEs) have sufficient visual contrast relative to one another to represent distinguishable relationships among individual concepts of conveyance, pairs of concepts of conveyance and multiple concepts of conveyance that are overlapping;
responsive to determining said first visual identification indicia, iteratively determining, by said computer, a corresponding visual identification indicia for each of said remaining plurality of concepts of conveyance, each of said visual identification indicia being characterized by a unique corresponding combination of appearance style elements selected from said plurality of visual attribute categories;
determining, by the computer, a set of ASEs for a concept of conveyance (COC), and the ASE set includes ASEs identified for strategic reuse;
recording, by the computer, the set of ASEs for each COC in a reference table to ensure that unique permutations are generated to identify distinct COCs of the plurality COCs by checking the reference table; and
responsive to determining said visual identification indicia for each concept of conveyance, presenting, by said computer, a visualization of said plurality of concepts of conveyance, said visualization distinguishing relationships among said plurality of concepts of conveyance.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said appearance style elements are selected, at least in part, in accordance with visual accessibility consideration factors.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
said visual identification indicia are line segments; and
wherein said appearance style elements are selected from a list consisting of indicia endmarks, indicia line style, indicia line thickness, indicia line quantity, and indicia line color.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein one of said selected appearance style elements includes a first indicia endmark and a second indicia endmark, said first and second endmarks being different.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein said selected appearance style elements include a plurality of line styles.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein one of said selected appearance style elements includes a plurality of line thicknesses.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said visual identification indicia have at least one attribute in common.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least two of said concepts of conveyance share a common characteristic and wherein said visual identification indicia are selected, at least in part, in accordance with said shared characteristic.

9. A system to optimize input component enablement to distinguish relationships among concepts of conveyance contained within delivered content, which comprises:
a computer system comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to:
receive a plurality of concepts of conveyance;
responsive to receiving said plurality of concepts of conveyance, determine a first visual identification indicia for a first of said plurality of concepts of conveyance, said first visual identification indicia being characterized by a first combination of appearance style elements selected from a plurality of visual attribute categories, wherein said appearance style elements have sufficient visual contrast relative to one another to represent distinguishable relationships among individual concepts of conveyance, pairs of concepts of conveyance and multiple concepts of conveyance that are overlapping;
responsive to determining said first visual identification indicia, iteratively determine a corresponding visual identification indicia for each of said remaining plurality of concepts of conveyance, each of said visual identification indicia being characterized by a unique corresponding combination of appearance style elements selected from said plurality of visual attribute categories;
determine, by the computer, a set of ASEs for a concepts of conveyance (COC), and the ASE set includes ASEs identified for strategic reuse;
record, by the computer, the set of ASEs for each COC in a reference table to ensure that unique permutations are generated to identify distinct COCs of the plurality COCs by checking the reference table; and
responsive to determining said visual identification indicia for each concept of conveyance, present a visualization of said plurality of concepts of conveyance, said visualization distinguishing relationships among said plurality of concepts of conveyance.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein said appearance style elements are selected, at least in part, in accordance with visual accessibility consideration factors.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein:
said visual identification indicia are line segments; and
wherein said appearance style elements are selected from a list consisting of indicia endmarks, indicia line style, indicia line thickness, and indicia line color.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein one of said selected appearance style elements includes a first indicia endmark and a second indicia endmark, said first and second endmarks being different.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein said selected appearance style elements include a plurality of line styles.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein one of said selected appearance style elements includes a plurality of line thicknesses.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein said visual identification indicia have at least one attribute in common.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein at least two of said concepts of conveyance of conveyance share a common characteristic and wherein said visual identification indicia are selected, at least in part, in accordance with said shared characteristic.

17. Computer program product to distinguish relationships among concepts of conveyance contained within delivered content, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to:
receive, using said computer, a plurality of concepts of conveyance;
responsive to receiving said plurality of concepts of conveyance, determine, using said computer, a first visual identification indicia for a first of said plurality of concepts of conveyance, said first visual identification indicia being characterized by a first combination of appearance style elements selected from a plurality of visual attribute categories, wherein said appearance style elements have sufficient visual contrast relative to one another to represent distinguishable relationships among individual concepts of conveyance, pairs of concepts of conveyance and multiple concepts of conveyance that are overlapping;
responsive to determining said first visual identification indicia, iteratively determine, using said computer, a corresponding visual identification indicia for each of said remaining plurality of concepts of conveyance, each of said visua

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Co Hau
• Depgen Jane
• Lam Joseph
• Snagg Vincent Charles

Classifications

• G16B45/00 Primary

  ICT specially adapted for bioinformatics-related data visualisation, e.g. displaying of maps or networks · CPC title

• G16H15/00

  ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof · CPC title

• G06F40/103 Primary

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title

• G16H50/20

  for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems · CPC title