System for arranging and retrieving information
US4109938A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 25, 1975 |
| Grant date | Aug 29, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09B5/062
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A heavily illustrated, integrated and correlated system topically arranging information for ready location and comprehension through short descriptions, picture stories, expanded illustrated narratives, or combinations thereof, which are complete in and of themselves, and are cross-referenced and indexed by both illustrations and words or combinations of same. An illustrated comprehensive text, an illustrated alphabetical text, and an illustrated index cooperate to arrange the information within the system. The illustrated comprehensive text includes numerous articles on selected subjects. Each article includes a main written text, and is heavily pictorialized with a key illustration and ancillary illustrations arranged in a predetermined sequence. Ancillary text, directed only to the illustrations, is disposed proximate to its respective illustration and is correspondingly sequenced. Cross referencing is accomplished by a listing disposed conspicuously in a marginal position. Key illustrations from the illustrated comprehensive text are, in turn, utilized in the illustrated alphabetical text where such key illustrations, mostly reduced in size, are alphabetically arranged. Each il…
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