Method and apparatus for organizing and processing

专利名称：Method and apparatus for organizing and

processing information using a digitalcomputer

发明人：Harlan M. Hugh申请号：US09487701申请日：20000119公开号：US06256032B1公开日：20010703

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摘要：A method and apparatus for organizing and processing pieces of interrelatedinformation (or “thoughts”) using a digital computer is disclosed. The invention

employs a graphical user interface to facilitate user interaction with highly flexible,associative “matrices” that enable users conveniently to organize digitally-storedthoughts and their network of interrelationships. Each of the thoughts may be affiliatedwith one or more application programs, such as a word processing or spreadsheet utility,or an Internet browser. Users are able conveniently to select a current thought alongwith any applications or content associated with that thought by interacting with thegraphical representation. That representation is automatically reoriented about theselected thought, and is revised to reflect only those thoughts having predeterminedrelations to that current thought. Users can easily modify the matrix by interactivelyredefining relations between thoughts. Further aspects of the invention includetechniques permitting automated generation of thought matrices, delayed loading tofacilitate navigation amongst thoughts without undue delay due to bandwidthconstraints, and matrix division and linking to allow optimal data structure flexibility.Finally, the present invention is interoperable with computer networks including theinternet, and offers an intuitive scalable methodology for the navigation and

management of essentially immeasurable information resources and knowledge basesthat transcends the limitations inherent in traditional hierarchical approaches.

申请人：THEBRAIN TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

代理机构：Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

代理人：Chien-Wei (Chris) Chou

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