Patent ID: 8914386

Claim:
A system for displaying relationships between two or more stories, the system comprising: a data store that stores data associated with a plurality of stories; and a computing device in communication with the data store and that is configured to: cause display of: (1) identification information identifying a first story, wherein the first story is embodied in at least a first type of media, and (2) a plurality of referents that are each related to a point in the first story, wherein each of the plurality of referents comprises at least one of an event, a character, an object, a subject, a time, a place and a person; enable a user to filter the plurality of referents that are displayed based at least in part on a referent type associated with each of the plurality of referents; enable a user to select one of the plurality of referents related to a given point in the first story in order to view identification information identifying at least one other story that is also associated with the selected referent; and based at least in part on a user selection of one of the plurality of referents: determine a second story that is associated with the selected referent, wherein the second story is different from the first story and is embodied in at least the same first type of media as the first story, wherein the second story is determined based at least in part on stored referent association data that associates the second story with a plurality of referents; and cause display of (1) identification information identifying the second story that is associated with the selected referent, and (2) a graphical representation comprising a plurality of indicia, wherein each indicium of the plurality of indicia represents a different point that is in the second story and that is related to the selected referent, wherein each indicium of the plurality of indicia is included in the graphical representation in a narrative order in which the point represented by the indicium occurs in the second story.