Thomas Richard Lanning - Littleton MA Kent Barrows Wittenburg - Lynnfield MA Michael Scott Heinrichs - Waltham MA Christina Lynn Fyock - Sudbury MA Guangjun Li - Waltham MA
Assignee:
Verizon Laboratories Inc. - Waltham MA
International Classification:
G09G 500
US Classification:
345738, 345678, 345663, 345586
Abstract:
A system for browsing multidimensional information includes a digital data storage circuit that stores the multidimensional information in a database and a digital logic circuit that imports, manipulates and outputs the multidimensional information in the database in accordance with a mapping model maps each dimension of multidimensional information space to a location in abstract physical space, and a user interface interactively accepts input from a user and, using the mapping model, renders a graphical representation of the multidimensional information space. The graphical representation is responsive to input of user-initiated restrictions on the multidimensional information space by effecting corresponding visible manifestations in the graphical representation.