Patent Document ID: 8296666
Application ID: 11289381

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented visualization system for information analysis, the system comprising: a user interface; a processor and a memory coupled thereto, the memory storing instructions and data therein to configure the execution of the processor to configure a space on the user interface for marshalling evidence therein, the processor further configured to: visually represent a plurality of information excerpts from at least one information source in a spatial arrangement in the space on the user interface; and receive user input to manipulate the spatial arrangement of the plurality of information excerpts with respect to one another on the user interface as directed by the user for defining the evidence; receive analysis content on the user interface for associating with the plurality of information excerpts to facilitate visual cognition of the evidence in accordance with the manipulated spatial arrangement.

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Claim 18:
18. The visualization system of claim 1 wherein the processor is further configured to represent the information as data objects on the user interface movable in said space, said data objects having one of a plurality of types, and wherein said processor is configured to permit a user to define a data object having an assertion type with which to group other data objects to prove a truth or falsity of an assertion associated with the data object having an assertion type, said data object having an assertion type comprising assertion gates, at least one assertion gate for proving the assertion and one assertion gate for disproving the assertion, through which said other data objects are moved to automatically bind respective other data objects in accordance with their support for the assertion.