Patent ID: 7992094
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying emergent information, the method comprising: creating emergent information from underlying data; creating at least one intelligent icon from the emergent data, wherein the at least one intelligent icon is visually coded to represent the emergent data for one or more specific parties on a visual display; displaying at least one intelligent icon on the visual display, wherein the at least one intelligent icon presents information needed by a user to react to the emergent information, wherein the at least one intelligent icon is a spider chart; interlinking the underlying data and logic for multiple parties on the visual display by clicking different intelligent icons for each of the multiple parties, wherein the multiple parties comprise a friendly marine vessel and a hostile marine vessel, and wherein the altering of the visual coding represents a likelihood that the friendly marine vessel is capable of interdicting the hostile marine vessel; in response to the interlinking, altering a visual coding of intelligent icons associated with the multiple parties; reacting to the emergent information by initiating physical action that results in the emergent information being changed; presenting at least one intelligent icon as an intelligent cursor on the visual display; and in response to the intelligent cursor being clicked, presenting the underlying data on the visual display.