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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2000
John R. Ripley, Round Rock, TX (US);
Steve C. Wotring, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon C. Hicks, Round Rock, TX (US);
John R. Ripley, Round Rock, TX (US);
Steve C. Wotring, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon C. Hicks, Round Rock, TX (US);
Infoglide Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention comprises a computer-implemented visualization model of similarity relationships between documents. It comprises performing a similarity search based on at least one attribute of a reference document to find at least one target document with similar attributes; creating a visual representation of the reference database document and the at least one target document; creating a visual representation of the similarities between the reference document and the at least one target document; and displaying the visual representations of the database documents and their similarities on a graphical user interface. The target documents that are similarity searched may reside in a plurality of databases. The similarity search returns a result set of target documents that are used by the visualization model to create the visual representation of the documents and the similarities between the documents.