Patent ID: 8001157
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer controlled method comprising: extracting separately-movable instance objects representing entity/relationship objects from a collection of documents; displaying, in a workspace window, a story-organized visual presentation that represents a comprehension state by organizing a plurality of instance representations into entity-clickable sentences for easy visual comprehension, the story-organized visual presentation including a plurality of instance representations of the separately-movable instance objects representing entity/relationship objects in said story-organized visual presentation, the instance representations being displayed such that instance representations having relationships to each other are abuttedly coupled to each other; altering the story-organized visual presentation responsive to customized manipulation from a user of the story-organized visual presentation of the comprehension state comprising changes to the position and abutment relationships of a first instance-representation relative to other instance representations; accessing a belief graph, said belief graph comprising a plurality of fact nodes that correspond to the plurality of instance representations and a plurality of weighted edges that correspond to the relationships between each fact node of the plurality of fact nodes, one of said plurality of weighted edges connecting a first of said plurality of fact nodes and a second of said plurality of fact nodes, each instance representation of the plurality of instance representations being associated with a fact node of the plurality of fact nodes; altering said belief graph responsive to the user customized altering of said story-organized visual presentation; presenting in the workspace window, the entity-clickable sentences, which include text strings with separately-movable subparts, the separately movable subparts including the plurality of instance representations; identifying the text strings represented in the entity-clickable sentences in the workspace window based on a level of interest corresponding to relationships between the instance representations in the belief graph; and modifying, responsive to the altering of the belief graph, a weighted edge of the plurality of weighted edges, wherein the presenting is also responsive to said belief graph as altered, the entity-clickable sentences visibly mark the plurality of instance representations and allow the knowledge worker to click on an instance representation in the sentences so the knowledge worker can see where else the instance representation is used in the story-organized visual presentation, the story-organized visual presentation orders story information based on the preferences of the knowledge worker and allows the knowledge worker to determine the order of instance representations displayed in sentence form, and the text strings have visual indicators that are based on at least one of a level of interest to the knowledge worker and an entity type.