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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
Thomas Richard Lanning, Littleton, MA (US);
Kent Barrows Wittenburg, Lynnfield, MA (US);
Michael Scott Heinrichs, Waltham, MA (US);
Christina Lynn Fyock, Sudbury, MA (US);
Guangjun Li, Waltham, MA (US);
Verizon Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for browsing multidimensional information includes a digital data storage circuit that stores the multidimensional information in a database and a digital logic circuit that imports, manipulates and outputs the multidimensional information in the database in accordance with a mapping model maps each dimension of multidimensional information space to a location in abstract physical space, and a user interface interactively accepts input from a user and, using the mapping model, renders a graphical representation of the multidimensional information space. The graphical representation is responsive to input of user-initiated restrictions on the multidimensional information space by effecting corresponding visible manifestations in the graphical representation