Patent: Charts&Diagrams -- Maps, Graphs, & 3-D Models

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Patent:

Graphic-information flow method and system
for visually analyzing patterns and relationships

Interactive Charts and Graphs.

  1. GUI Layout and I/O
  2. Scenario of Scientific Inquiry
  3. Variety of Data Presentations
  4. Maps, Graphs, 3-D Models

Maps, Graphs, and 3-D Models

An example is provided depicting the use of the present system for assessing sophisticated geographic information. The series illustrates how a vast amount of information can be organized within a single, small screen and how its layered data can be retrieved by means of exemplar special control apparatus. The sequence begins with a user browsing a series of interconnected, geographic maps.

FIG. 9d shows an interactive map-format report that plots information about viewers of ads that sponsored the world map illustrated in FIG. 7a. When a user entered the map atlas site, an id number was assigned to return the proper map layers; this system is also useful as a market analysis tool. The user-tracking system records anonymous user-activity that can be configured as such an interactive map-based report.

FIG. 11 shows an example of a three-dimensional model that can be rotated. With the addition of a topics list and key, it becomes a "map" and has feature and attribute data that can be shown and hidden, hilited, queried, and annotated.

US Patent #6,307,573

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