Patent Document ID: 8606775
Application ID: 12972058

Base Claim:
1. A system for graphically representing one or more referents associated with a plurality of stories, the system comprising: a data store that stores data associated with a plurality of stories, wherein the data associated with each story comprises referent data identifying one or more referents associated with the story; and a computing device in communication with the data store and that executes: a first processing component operative to: receive a user selection of a first referent of interest to the user and a second referent of interest to the user, wherein the first referent and second referent each comprise at least one of an event, a character, an object, a subject, a time, a place and a person; determine, for each of the plurality of stories, a first score for the story, wherein the first score is determined based at least in part on a number of times that the first referent of interest to the user is referenced in at least a portion of content of the story; and determine, for each of the plurality of stories, a second score for the story, wherein the second score is determined based at least in part on a number of times that the second referent of interest to the user is referenced in at least a portion of content of the story; wherein the first score and the second score for each of the plurality of stories are determined based at least in part on referent data stored in the data store; and a second processing component operative to generate for display a graphical representation of a subset of the plurality of stories, the graphical representation comprising: a plurality of indicia, wherein each story of the subset of the plurality of stories is represented by one indicium of the plurality of indicia, wherein each indicium of the plurality of indicia is associated with a different story of the subset of the plurality of stories, wherein the indicium associated with each story graphically indicates a strength of association between the story and both the first referent of interest to the user and the second referent of interest to the user, wherein the strength of association is determined based at least in part on the first score and the second score.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein a first color represents the first referent of interest to the user and a second color represents the second referent of interest to the user, and wherein, for each of the plurality of indicia, the strength of association between the story and the first and second referents of interest is graphically indicated by a combination of the first color and the second color.