Patent ID: 7475072

Claim:
A system for visualization of context-based search results comprising: a processor; a memory operatively coupled to the processor; computer code in the memory for implementing the following functionality: a) a plurality of neurons that form a neural network, the neurons being associated with documents and words in the documents, the neurons representing words corresponding to a search query (“word-neurons”), and the neurons representing documents corresponding to the search results (“document-neurons”); b) a plurality of connections between the word-neurons and the document-neurons; c) means for displaying the word-neurons and the search results to a user, wherein relevance of the word-neurons is indicated by any of font size, text transparency, font color, and animation effects associated with text of at least some of the neurons; and d) means for changing positions of the word-neurons on a display relative to each other based on input from the user, wherein changing a position of one word-neuron relative to other word-neurons also changes positions of other contextually relevant word-neurons, thereby changing a context of the search query and permitting the user to identify different relevant documents, and wherein at least some of the neurons that correspond to objects (concepts) have icons associated with them, the icons corresponding to a meaning of the objects.