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Using visual techniques to manipulate data

US8358308B2 · kind B2 · utility

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19Claims

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

George G. Robertson · Foster City, US
Danyel A. Fisher · Seattle, US
Bongshin Lee · Issaquah, US
Roland L. Fernandez · Woodinville, US
Lev B. Nachmanson · Redmond, US
Timothy Dwyer · Seattle, US
Mikkel Ronne Jakobsen · Copenhagen, DK
Olga Kulyk · Redmond, US
Matthew J. Kotler · Sammamish, US
Kipper V. Jewsbury · Seattle, US
Brian Welcker · Seattle, US
Gur Kimchi · Bellevue, US
Morten Holm-Peterson · Copenhagen, DK
Stella Yick Chan · Kirkland, US
Jason Weber · Peoria, US
B. Scott Ruble · Bellevue, US
Murali R. Krishnan · Redmond, US
Benjamin L. Chronister · Duvall, US
Christian Olaf Abeln · Helsingborg, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 27, 2008
Grant date	Jan 22, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 7, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/34
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Various types of data can be collected into a data set and related content and/or related concepts across the data in the data set and/or across search histories can be displayed as a visual representation. The related content/concepts can be presented as a function of incremental revealing of relationships. After reviewing the visual representation, a user can customize the data set and relationships by specifically excluding a related data segment. The visual representation can be applied across multiple searches or other obtained data. Through interaction with the visual representation, a user can drill down into common linkages of the data to more narrowly focus on a subset of the data and/or to refocus a search result and/or to provide annotations.

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