Three-dimensional time series data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9736102-B2
Application number	US-201615099851-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2016
Priority date	Dec 12, 2011
Publication date	Aug 15, 2017
Grant date	Aug 15, 2017

Abstract

A system, device, computer program product, and/or method generates display data that allows a user to ascertain a relationship between related electronic information from among sent and received electronic information. A three-dimensional time series data processing system selects one electronic information, extracts electronic information relating to the selected electronic information from the electronic information database, calculates relevance between the sender of the selected electronic information and the sender of the extracted electronic information, and generates three-dimensional time series data for three-dimensionally rendering a relationship between the selected electronic information and the extracted electronic information as positional information of the respective extracted electronic information in a virtual three-dimensional space, where the sender, the send time and the relevance are axes. In addition, the three-dimensional time series data processing system renders three-dimensional time series data for relevance of electronic information in cylindrical coordinates and displays the data while modifying a viewing angle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A three-dimensional time series data processing system, comprising:
an electronic information hardware storage unit configured to store a plurality of electronic information that are sent and received via a given communication medium, each of the plurality of electronic information including sender information that indicates a sender of the electronic information and send time information that indicates a time at which corresponding electronic information is sent;
a selection hardware unit configured to select one electronic information from among the plurality of electronic information stored in the electronic information hardware storage unit;
an extraction hardware unit configured to extract electronic information related to selected electronic information selected by the selection hardware unit, from among the plurality of electronic information stored in an electronic information storage hardware unit;
a relevance calculation hardware unit configured to calculate a relevance between a selected sender indicated by sender information of the selected electronic information and related senders indicated by sender information from the related electronic information extracted by the extraction hardware unit; and
a three-dimensional data generation hardware unit configured to generate three-dimensional time-series data for three-dimensionally rendering a relationship between the selected electronic information and extracted electronic information extracted by the extraction hardware unit, wherein the three-dimensional data generation hardware unit generates positional information of the extracted electronic information in a virtual three-dimensional space in which a sender indicated by the sender information, a send time indicated by send time information, and the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation hardware unit are represented according to three-dimensional axes.

2. The three-dimensional time series data processing system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a three-dimensional rendering hardware unit configured to render three-dimensional time series data generated by the three-dimensional data generation hardware unit.

3. The three-dimensional time series data processing system according to claim 2 , wherein the three-dimensional rendering hardware unit comprises:
a cylindrical coordinate unit in which a z axis of cylindrical coordinates (r, θ, z) having a given radius r is the send time indicated by the send time information, and wherein θ is the relevance;
a cylindrical placement unit configured to place, along a surface of a cylinder formed by the cylindrical coordinate unit, content information of electronic information having same sender information as sender information of selected electronic information from among the extracted electronic information, wherein the content information is placed in a center of a surface of the cylinder with θ as 0 degrees in order of the send time of the z axis, and wherein the cylindrical placement unit places content information of electronic information having different sender information from the sender information of the selected electronic information from among the extracted electronic information on the surface of the cylinder by changing θ for each sender information according to a level of relevance in order of a send time of the z axis; and
a cylindrical display unit configured to display content information placed by the cylindrical placement unit by changing a configuration of the display that shows the content information according to a position on the surface of the cylinder at which the content information is placed.

4. The three-dimensional time series data processing system according to claim 3 , wherein the three-dimensional rendering hardware unit further comprises:
a rotation accepting unit configured to accept an instruction that designates the sender information from among the content information for each sender information placed by the cylindrical placement unit, and
a rotational movement unit configured to make content information of electronic information having the same sender information as the sender information designated by the instruction accepted by the rotation accepting unit to be in the center of the surface of the cylinder, and to move content information of electronic information having different sender information from the designated sender information along the surface of the cylinder according to content information of the designated sender information placed in the center of the surface of the cylinder.

5. The three-dimensional time series data processing system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a rendering rule storage unit configured to store rendering rules in which rules for three-dimensionally rendering three-dimensional time series data are prescribed, wherein the three-dimensional rendering hardware unit renders based on the rendering rules stored in the rendering rule storage unit.

6. The three-dimensional time series data processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic information is email, wherein the related electronic information is reply information recorded when replying to a received email, and wherein the extraction hardware unit comprises:
a related source extraction unit configured to extract electronic information identified by identification information included in related information of the selected electronic information, and further to extract electronic information identified by identification information included in related information of the extracted electronic information, and
a related destination extraction unit configured to extract electronic information that includes identification information of the selected electronic information in related information, and further to extract electronic information that includes identification information of the extracted electronic information in related information.

7. A method of generating three-dimensional time series data, the method comprising:
storing, by one or more processors, a plurality of electronic information that are sent and received via a given communication medium, each of the plurality of electronic information including sender information that indicates a sender of the plurality of electronic information and a send time information that indicates a time at which corresponding electronic information is sent;
selecting, by one or more processors, one electronic information from among the plurality of electronic information stored by the one or more processors;
extracting, by one or more processors, electronic information related to selected electronic information selected from among the plurality of electronic information stored by the one or more processors;
calculating, by one or more processors, a relevance between a selected sender indicated by the sender information of the selected electronic information and related senders indicated by sender information from the related electronic information extracted by the one or more processors; and
generating, by one or more processors, three-dimensional time-series data for three-dimensionally rendering a relationship between the selected electronic information and extracted electronic information extracted by the one or more processors, wherein said one or more processors generates positional information of each of a plurality of said extracted electronic information in a virtual three-dimensional space in which a sender indicated by the sender information, a send time indicated by send time information, and relevance calculated by the one or more processors are represented according to three-dimensional axes.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
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Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• ADACHI Kumi
• Kanzaki Eisuke
• Takahashi Koichi
• Takahashi Takashi
• Takeda Hideo

Classifications

• H04L51/16 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06T2219/004

  Annotating, labelling · CPC title

• G06F17/3053

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T17/10

  Constructive solid geometry [CSG] using solid primitives, e.g. cylinders, cubes · CPC title

• G06F17/30312

  Physics · mapped topic