Patent Document ID: 9552346
Application ID: 14488424

Base Claim:
1. A method for visualizing literary elements as a graph comprising: receiving by a computer system a set of meta-data records representing the contents of a digital work of literature, wherein each meta-data record comprises a significance value for a literary element and a relationship of the literary element to one or more items selected from the group consisting of a character, and a literary plot device, and a position where the literary element occurs within a literary plot of the work of literature, and wherein the receiving comprises at least one action selected from the group consisting of receiving converted data from human reviews, receiving converted data from synopses, and receiving meta-data created by a computer using natural language processing and deep semantic analysis; graphing by a computer system the literary elements, characters and plot devices in a sequential graph having a first axis corresponding to a progression of the literary plot within the work of literature, a second axis orthogonal to the first axis corresponds to significance level, and a plurality of points located within the sequential graph as a function of the occurrence position and significance level for each literary element; and rendering by a computer the sequential graph to an output of the computer system.

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Claim 6:
6. The method as set forth in claim 1 further comprising: breaking the meta-data records by a computer into segments of the work of literature; and marking by a computer the sequential graph according to the segments.