Traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) are capable of storing vast amounts of data in a structured row/column format. A structured query language may be used to query, filter and analyze the stored data to generate structured query results. Graph databases, however, generally do not possess such structure. Instead, graph database store data in some combination of nodes and edges. As a result, the query results for a graph database are completely unstructured, difficult to iterate through and, particularly with large graph databases, nearly useless when rendered as a visual graph.
It is with respect to these and other general considerations that the aspects disclosed herein have been made. Also, although relatively specific problems may be discussed, it should be understood that the examples should not be limited to solving the specific problems identified in the background or elsewhere in this disclosure.
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of rendering phantom results using graph queries. In aspects, a first query executed against a data source, such as an isolated collection of resources, may generate a first result set. The first result set may comprise ordered lists (e.g., node-edge-node 3-tuples), and may be rendered in a graphical format. A representation of one or more of the ordered lists may be present in the rendered graphical format. A second query may then be executed against the data source to generate a second result set. The first result set may be compared to the second result set to determine consistencies between the ordered lists of the two result sets. In an example, when it is determined that an ordered list present in the first result set is absent from (or less relevant in) the second result set, the transparency of the representation of that absent (or less relevant) ordered list may be increased in the rendered graphical format. In another example, when it is determined that an ordered list absent from the first result set is present in the second result set, the now-present ordered list may be displayed as a new representation in the rendered graphical format. Alternately, if the now-present ordered list had been previously seen in a prior iteration of the rendered graphical format, the transparency of the representation of that absent ordered list may be decreased in the rendered graphical format.
This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter. Additional aspects, features, and/or advantages of examples will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.
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Various aspects of the disclosure are described more fully below with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and which show specific exemplary aspects. However, different aspects of the disclosure may be implemented in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the aspects set forth herein; rather, these aspects are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the aspects to those skilled in the art. Aspects may be practiced as methods, systems or devices. Accordingly, aspects may take the form of a hardware implementation, an entirely software implementation or an implementation combining software and hardware aspects. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense.
The present disclosure provides systems and methods of navigating and interacting with isolated collections of data. In aspects, an application or service for interfacing with associated with isolated collections of asserted data may be accessible to a client. An isolated collection of asserted data, as used herein, may refer to one or more asserted resources and relationships between those resources. In examples, a resource may correspond to a person, an entity, a file, a task, an electronic communication, a document (or portion thereof), a calendar event, etc. A resource may be associated with a resource identifier (e.g., uniform resource locator (URL), uniform resource name (URN), etc.). A resource identifier may identify a resource and enable interaction with representations of the resource over a network. A relationship may identity associations between one or more resources and/or resource identifiers. Such relationships may be identified and/or determined manually, using one or more rule sets, or using semantic web technologies (e.g., resource description framework (RDF), RDF schema (RDFS), SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL), Web Ontology Language (OWL), etc.).
In aspects, an isolated collection may comprise one or more resources, resource identifiers and/or relationships. An isolated collection may also comprise permission information, one or more rule sets and/or metadata (e.g., resource/relationship description properties, such as title, creator, subject, description, publisher, contributor, date, type format, identifier, source, language, relation, coverage, rights, etc.). A resource and/or a relationship (and corresponding data) may be referred to as “asserted” when the resource and/or relationship is not inferred or defined by the isolated collection. For example, a resource/relationship may be asserted if it is explicitly defined, determined by querying or interacting with a resource provider or data store, or the like. In contrast, a resource/relationship (and corresponding data) may be referred to as “inferred” when the isolated collection defines a resource/relationship (or property thereof) using one or more rules of the isolated collection. For example, a resource/relationship may be inferred if an isolated collection (or the application or service managing the isolated collection) executes one or more rules stored by (or specifically associated with) the isolated collection against asserted data stored by the isolated collection. An inferred resource or relationship may provide additional information or enriched information for asserted data (e.g., resources, resource identifiers, relationships, etc.). Inferred data may be stored in, or by, an isolated collection. An isolated collection comprising both asserted data and inferred data may be referred to as an enriched isolated collection of asserted data. As used herein, an isolated collection of asserted data and an enriched isolated collection of asserted data may be referred to as an “isolated collection” or a “Set.”
The present disclosure further provides systems and methods of rendering phantom results using graph queries. In aspects, a first query may be executed against a data source to generate a first result set. The first result set may comprise ordered lists that are represented as one or more resources and/or relationships (e.g., nodes and/or edges) in a graph of the first result set. The graph may be stored and/or rendered on one or more devices. A second query may then be executed against the data source to generate a second result set comprising a set of ordered lists. The ordered lists of the first result set and the second result may be compared to determine consistencies. For example, it may be determined from the comparison that an ordered list present in the first result set is absent from the second result set. As a result, the transparency of the representation of the absent ordered list (or one or more list items thereof) may be increased (e.g., lightened or “phantomed”) in the graph, or a second graph comprising the more transparent representation of the absent ordered list may be generated. In such an example, the second graph may be stored in the same location(s) as the first graph to facilitate quick traversal of the graph versions. As another example, it may be determined from the comparison that an ordered list present in the first result set has become less relevant in the second result set. As a result, the transparency of the representation of the less relevant ordered list (or one or more list items thereof) may be increased in the graph, or a second graph comprising the more transparent representation of the less relevant ordered list may be generated. As yet another example, it may be determined that an ordered list absent from the first result set is present in the second result set. As a result, the now-present ordered list may be displayed as a new resource and/or relationship in the graph. Alternately, it may be determined that the now-present ordered list was present in a previous iteration of the graph (e.g., the now-present ordered list is currently phantomed in the graph). As a result, the transparency of the representation of the now-present ordered list may be decreased (e.g., darkened or “de-phantomed”) in the graph.
Accordingly, the present disclosure provides a plurality of technical benefits including but not limited to: enabling users to define and identify relationships between resources; inferring rich relationship from a small data set; creating a robust query model; enabling the execution of powerful queries on isolated collections; providing a user interface to create, manage and visualize tasks associated with isolated collections; consolidating tasks across multiple user accounts, using isolated collections to classify tasks and task types; graphically illustrating resources/relationships that have been added, removed or modified; efficiently navigating multiple iterations of graph database results; weighting/scoring result set tuples (and/or elements thereof) based on the presence of tuples in successive result sets; creating and maintaining resource-relationship rule sets to quickly construct graph, among other examples.
As presented, system 100 comprises client devices 102A-C, distributed network 104, and a distributed server environment comprising one or more servers, such as server devices 106A-C. One of skill in the art will appreciate that the scale of systems such as system 100 may vary and may include additional or fewer components than those described in
In aspects, client devices 102A-C may be configured to receive input via a user interface component or other input means. Examples of input may include voice, visual, touch, and text input. The interface component may enable the creation, modification, and navigation of various datasets and graphical representations. In examples, the various datasets may comprise (or be otherwise associated with), for example, resource identifiers, resource metadata, relationship information, asserted relationships, graphical mapping information, query data, rule sets, such as, for example, inference rules, authorization information, authentication information, etc., as discussed in further detail below. Generally, the datasets are stored on one or more of server devices 106A-C and are accessible by the client devices 102A-C via a network connection, such as distributed network 104. In some examples, however, the datasets may be at least partially stored on one or more of the client devices 102A-C. The underlying resources represented in the various datasets may be stored locally or in a data store, such as a cloud storage application, accessible to client devices 102A-C. In at least one example, the underlying resources represented in the various datasets (or portions thereof) may be distributed across client devices 102A-C. For instance, client device 102A (e.g., a mobile phone) may locally store a first portion of the resources represented in the dataset, client device 102B (e.g., a tablet) may locally store a second portion of the resources, and client device 102C (e.g., a laptop) may locally store the remaining portion of the resources represented in the dataset. In examples, the client devices 102A-C may have access to all of the resources included in the data set, may have access to a subset of the resources included in the dataset, or, alternatively, may not have access to any of the resources included in the dataset.
Client devices 102A-C may be further configured to provide task management for tasks, activities and/or events associated with the various datasets. In aspects, the interface component may additionally or alternately enable the creation, modification, navigation and/or querying of one or more user accounts. The user accounts may comprise (or be associated with) tasks and activities that were created by, or are particular to, a specific user account. The user accounts may store the tasks in one or more data stores, such as datasets described above. Alternately, the user accounts may simply have access to data stores where tasks are stored. For example, datasets may comprise tasks (and associated data) and indicators of task storage locations. Such indicators may refer to local locations, remote locations, or some combination thereof. Client devices 102A-C may query the task storage locations for tasks and related information corresponding to one or user accounts. Client devices 102A-C may collect and aggregate the query results for the task storage locations. The aggregated query results may be analyzed to generate rich task data, and/or to determine associations between tasks, associations between tasks and users, task dependencies, task classifications, task priority levels, task statuses, task optimizations, task resource allocations, etc. Client devices 102A-C may then generate or receive a result for the queried user accounts and/or user tasks. The result may be presented to a user via, for example, the interface component.
Server devices 106A-C may be configured to store and/or provide access to one or more resources. For example, server device 102A may be a web server, server device 102B may be a device comprising a collaborative messaging tool and a calendaring application, and server device 102C may be electronic mail server. Each of these devices may comprise a repository of resources that is accessible via one or more authorization mechanisms. In some aspects, server devices 106A-C may be configured to store at least a portion of the various data sets and graphical representations, as discussed above. Server devices 106A-C may be further configured to provide analysis services. For example, server devices 106A-C may comprise, or have access to, an analysis component. The analysis component may have access to, for example, task data for a user or one or more user accounts. The analysis component may apply machine learning techniques to the task data to determine one or more associations, classification, or priorities in the task data. In examples, server devices 106A-C may provide the determinations (or an aspect thereof) to a task management application or service.
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In aspects, Set creation applications 202 and 204 may have access to a file directory or an execution environment, such as environment 206. Environment 206 may be co-located with a Set creation application, or environment 206 may be located remotely from the Set creation application. Environment 206 may provide access to one or more isolated data collections, such as Sets 208 and 210. In examples, access to the isolated data collections may be determined using one or more permissions sets generated and/or maintained by Set creation applications 202 and 204. The permissions sets may be different across one or more of the isolated data collections. As a result, one or more of the isolated data collections (or functionality associated therewith) may not be accessible from one or more of Set creation applications 202 and 204.
Sets 208 and 210 may respectively comprise isolated collections of asserted and/or inferred resource identifiers and relationships. The relationships in the isolated collections may be defined manually or may be automatically derived using one or more rule sets. The isolated collections may be represented using graphical structures, such as a named graph, that directly relate resources in the data collection and provide for retrieving relationship data with a single operation. Each isolated collection may comprise resource identifiers that are unique to that isolated collection. Alternately, the isolated collections may comprise resource identifiers included in one or more alternate isolated collections. For example, as depicted in
Resource providers 212 and 214 may be configured to store and/or provide access to one or more resources. As such, a resource provider as used herein may be a data store, a cloud service provider, a client computing device, a server computing device, a distributed system of devices, such as, for example, an enterprise network, an application, a software platform (e.g., an operating system, a database, etc.), and the like. In aspects, resource providers 212 and 214 may be (or have access to) various different data sources, such as content providers, data stores, various sets of application data, and the like. The data stores may comprise one or more resources corresponding to one or more resource identifiers. For example, as depicted in
In some aspects, resource providers 212 and 214 (or resources associated therewith) may be accessible by Set creation applications 202 and 204. For example, Set creation applications 202 and 204 may access resource providers 212 and 214 to determine the existence of resources and/or retrieve information associated with the resources (e.g., resource metadata, resource location, resource identifiers, permission sets, authorization data, etc.). In an alternate example, Set creation applications 202 and 204 may not have access to resource providers 212 and 214. Instead, resource providers 212 and 214 may, for example, publish or broadcast resources and/or resource information to one or more devices or storage locations. Set creation applications 202 and 204 may then access the devices or storage locations receiving the resources/resource information to determine the existence of resources. In yet another example, Set creation applications 202 and 204 may receive resources/resource information directly. For instance, a user may use an interface accessible to Set creation applications 202 and 204 to create or upload on or more resources. In such aspects, the retrieved resources/resource information may be used to determine a set of resource identifiers corresponding to one or more of the available resources. The set of resource identifiers may be used to create one or more isolated collections. As noted above, the resource identifiers may be, or include, a durable URI for its corresponding resource. For instance, the resource identifier 216 may include the URI for the actual document (D1) 228. Accordingly, in such an example, a user is able to determine the location of the document (D1) 228 from the Set, and, depending on authorization and access restrictions, retrieve the document (D1) 228. As another example, as depicted in
In contrast to the asserted resource identifiers and relationship, a collection creation utility may execute a ruleset to determine additional relationships and resource types, referred to herein as “inferred relationships” and “inferred resource identifiers” or “inferred resource types.” For example, upon execution of a ruleset, the collection creation utility may determine that resource identifier 312 represents an email message, and resource identifier 304 represents a document. Generation of inferred relationships and resources is discussed in further detail below. Based on this determination, the collection creation utility may assign relationship 324 (e.g., “attachmentOn”) to define the association between resource identifier 312 and resource identifier 304. The collection creation utility may utilize a similar approach to assign relationship 326 (e.g., “attachmentOn”) to define the association between resource identifier 314 and resource identifier 306.
Isolated collection 300 further depicts that resource identifier 302 is associated with resources identifiers 304, 306 and 308 and resource identifier 310. The collection creation utility may determine that the resource identifier 302 represents a task to be performed on identifiers 304, 306 and 308. Based on this determination, the collection creation utility may assign relationships 316, 318 and 320 (e.g., “taskOn”) to define the association between resource identifier 302 and resource identifier 304, 306 and 308. The collection creation utility may further determine that resource identifier 310 represents an email (without an attachment) that comprises a discussion of one or more aspects of resource identifier 302. Based on this determination, the collection creation utility may assign relationship 322 (e.g., “hasDiscussion”) to define the association between resource identifier 302 and resource identifier 310.
Example method 400 begins at operation 402 where a first query is executed against one or more data sources. In aspects, a query may be received by a computing device via one or more interfaces. The query may originate at, and/or be transmitted to the computing device by, a client device, such as client devices 102A-C. The computing device may evaluate the query to determine keywords in the query, a subject of the query, query parameters, or one or more targeted data sources. In at least one example, a plurality of subqueries may be generated as part of the evaluation. For instance, a set of subqueries may be generated for each of the keywords, parameters or data sources identified for the query. The query and/or subqueries may be provided to one or more search utilities and/or data sources accessible to the computing device. As a particular examples, the computing device may provide a query to a search engine, a data management utility, such as Set creation applications 202 and 204, a resource provider, such as Entities 212 and 214, one or more isolated collections of data, such as Sets 208 and 210, and/or other data sources. As another example, the computing device may process one or more portions of a query locally.
At operation 404, a result set may be generated for a query. In aspects, a result set may be generated by one or more data source(s) receiving the query. The results from each data source may be aggregated and/or organized into a combined result set. The result set may comprise organized lists (e.g., tuples) of data from one or more data sources. For instance, the result set for a query submitted to an isolated collection of data may comprise several 3-tuples of resources and relationships (e.g., resource-relationship-resource or node-edge-node). In aspects, the result set may be used to generate a graphical illustration comprising representations of the elements in the organized lists. Examples of graphical illustrations may include a graph database, a graph, a chart, a diagram, or the like. As a specific example,
At operation 406, a second query may be executed against one or more data sources. In aspects, the query executed at operation 402 may be modified, refined or reformulated to generate a second query. Alternately, a second query that is separate from the first query may be generated. As an example, the query that generated the three 3-tuples in
At operation 410, the first result set and second result set may be compared. In aspects, a comparison utility may be used to compare the first result set to the second result set. The comparison utility may be installed on, or accessible to, one or more of the client device originating the query and the computing device receiving the query. The comparison tool may use machine learning techniques, rule sets, regular expressions, or the like to evaluate the two result sets. In some examples, comparing the two result sets may include identifying the lists of tuples in each result set and generating a comparison list of tuples that are missing from, more or less relevant to, or modified in, the first and/or second result sets. The comparison list may be used to generate or modify a second graphical illustration. In such examples, generating the second graphical illustration may comprise duplicating the first graphical illustration and applying the differences in the comparison list to the first graphical illustration; thereby, generating the second graphical illustration. In other examples, the first and second graphical illustrations generated at operations 404 and 408 may be compared. For instance, the first and second graphical illustrations may be parsed or otherwise analyzed to determine the constituent elements of each graphical illustration. The location in the graphical illustrations of the respective determined constituent elements may also be determined. The differences in the determined information may be stored in, for example a comparison list.
At operation 412, modification may be applied to a graphical illustration. In aspects, a comparison list may be used to apply modifications to the first graphical illustration. Applying modifications to the first graphical illustration may include the use of one or more rule sets and/or weighting techniques. Such rules and techniques may include, for example, resource-relationship rules and/or tuple element rules. As an example, resource-relationship rules may specify that a tuple (e.g., resource-relationship-resource) included in a result set or comparison list is to be assigned a specific weight based on the addition or removal of the tuple from previous result sets. As an example, resource-relationship rules may specify that a tuple included in a result set or comparison list is to be associated with a weight or score based on the increased or decreased relevance of the tuple with respect to previous result sets. As yet another example, tuple element rules may specify that the individual resources or relationships included in a result set or comparison list are to be individually assigned specific weights based on the addition or removal of one or more of the tuple elements from previous result sets. In some aspects, the assigned (or otherwise associated) weights/scores may be represented in the associated graphical illustration using, for example, colors, line weights, line styles, etc. As an example,
In aspects, one or more graphical illustrations may be stored by a computing device. In examples, graphical illustrations and data associated therewith may be stored by the computing device and/or transmitted to, and stored by, one or more client devices. In such examples, the storing devices may be configured to store multiple iterations of the graphical illustrations, corresponding queries, and/or corresponding result sets. The storing devices may be further configured to provide an interface for navigating and manipulating the multiple iterations. As a particular example, the storing devices may comprise a slider utility. The slider utility may enable users to quickly traverse the multiple iterations to visualize and evaluate query results over time. As another example, the storing devices may comprise a reporting utility. The reporting utility may enable users to analyze query patterns, evaluate system resource usage, schedule maintenance periods, generate reports, etc. As yet another example, the storing devices may comprise a graph manipulation utility. The graph manipulation utility may enable users to modify and/or re-execute previous queries, modify query results, and modify one or more graph elements.
At operation 606, a weight may be assigned to the currently-evaluated tuple. In aspects, the computing device may maintain or be subject to one or more resource-relationship rules. For example, a resource-relationship rule may specify that tuples identified as appearing in a first result set and a subsequent second result set are assigned a specific weight (such as 3.0) in the second result set. In such an example, the largest cumulative weighting value may be set to a predefined threshold, such as 3.0. As such, tuples appearing in the result sets of multiple consecutive queries may be (re)assigned a weight of 3.0. Alternately, no weighting value threshold may be defined or definable. As a result, the weights of the tuples appearing in both sets may be added or otherwise combined such that the a weight of 6.0 is assigned to the tuples in the second result set (e.g., first result set weight (3.0)+second result set weight (3.0)=new second result set weight (6.0)). As another example, a resource-relationship rule may provide for determining the relevance of (or a change in the relevance of) a tuple appearing in a first result set and a subsequent second result set. For instance,
At operation 608, a tuple with an assigned weight may be displayed on a graphical illustration. In aspects, the resource-relationship rule (or an associated rule) may further specify how an assigned weight is to be represented in a graphical illustration. For example, the rule may specify that tuples present in a first and second result set (or within a specified weight range) will be represented in a second graphical illustration (e.g., a graphical illustration corresponding to the second result set) in the same manner (e.g., style, color, transparency, shape, size, etc.) as the tuples were presented in the first graphical illustration (e.g., a graphical illustration corresponding to the first result set). As a particular example,
At operation 610, a weight may be assigned to the currently-evaluated tuple. In aspects, a resource-relationship rule may specify that tuples that are removed from, or modified in, subsequent result sets are also assigned (or subject to) a decremented weight value (such as −1.0) in the second result set. The assignment and/or the application of a negative weight to a tuple may be represented in the associated graphical illustration by, for example, lightened colors, increased transparency (e.g., greying out or “phantoming”), decreased line weights, altered line styles, decreased shape sizes, etc. As an example,
In other aspects, a resource-relationship rule may specify a criteria for removing a tuple (or one or more elements thereof) from a graphical illustration. Such criteria may include a weighting value threshold, a transparency value threshold, the number of queries since the first query (e.g., the initial query in the current query session), the attenuation of results values from a determined user intent, etc. As an example, the weighting value threshold for removing tuples from a graph may be set to a value of 0.0. In such an example, a tuple having a weight of 0.0 or below may be assigned a maximum transparency value (thereby, hiding the representation of the tuple from view). The cumulative tuple weight and/or the position of the representation of the tuple in the graph, may be maintained over several iterations of queries. Alternately, a tuple having a weight of 0.0 or below may cause the tuple and an associated weight to be removed from the result set, such that the corresponding graph is rendered without a representation of the tuple. In some aspects, criteria for removing a tuple from a graphical illustration may provide for decreasing and/or increasing the transparency of a tuple multiple times over multiple iterations of a graph database (e.g., causing the representation of the tuple to fade in and out over a succession of queries). As an example,
In yet other aspects, a resource-relationship rule may specify criteria for rapidly decrementing and/or removing a tuple from a graphical illustration. Such criteria may include factors such as the number of results impacted by a query, the subject of a query, a filter element, or the like. For instance, a resource-relationship weighting rule may assign a weight of −1.0 for resources that are excluded from a result set as a result of a subsequent query, whereas a different resource-relationship weighting rule may assign a weight of −3.0 for relationships that are excluded from a result set as a result of a subsequent query. As a particular example,
In aspects, a resource-relationship rule may additionally specify the effects used to represent the addition or reappearance of resources and/or relationships to a graphical illustration. For instance, a resource-relationship presentation rule may specify that resources/relationships that are newly present in a result set and not presently represented in a corresponding graphical illustration are to be represented using dashed lines. The dashed lines may be accompanied by increased line weights, as described above with respect to the
As stated above, a number of program modules and data files may be stored in the system memory 704. While executing on the processing unit 702, the program modules 706 (e.g., application 720) may perform processes including, but not limited to, the aspects, as described herein. Other program modules that may be used in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure may include electronic mail and contacts applications, word processing applications, spreadsheet applications, database applications, slide presentation applications, drawing or computer-aided application programs, etc.
Furthermore, embodiments of the disclosure may be practiced in an electrical circuit comprising discrete electronic elements, packaged or integrated electronic chips containing logic gates, a circuit utilizing a microprocessor, or on a single chip containing electronic elements or microprocessors. For example, embodiments of the disclosure may be practiced via a system-on-a-chip (SOC) where each or many of the components illustrated in
The computing device 700 may also have one or more input device(s) 712 such as a keyboard, a mouse, a pen, a sound or voice input device, a touch or swipe input device, etc. The output device(s) 714 such as a display, speakers, a printer, etc. may also be included. The aforementioned devices are examples and others may be used. The computing device 700 may include one or more communication connections 716 allowing communications with other computing devices 750. Examples of suitable communication connections 716 include, but are not limited to, radio frequency (RF) transmitter, receiver, and/or transceiver circuitry; universal serial bus (USB), parallel, and/or serial ports.
The term computer readable media as used herein may include computer storage media. Computer storage media may include volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information, such as computer readable instructions, data structures, or program modules. The system memory 704, the removable storage device 709, and the non-removable storage device 710 are all computer storage media examples (e.g., memory storage). Computer storage media may include RAM, ROM, electrically erasable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other article of manufacture which can be used to store information and which can be accessed by the computing device 700. Any such computer storage media may be part of the computing device 700. Computer storage media does not include a carrier wave or other propagated or modulated data signal.
Communication media may be embodied by computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism, and includes any information delivery media. The term “modulated data signal” may describe a signal that has one or more characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media may include wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, radio frequency (RF), infrared, and other wireless media.
One or more application programs 866 may be loaded into the memory 862 and run on or in association with the operating system 864. Examples of the application programs include phone dialer programs, e-mail programs, personal information management (PIM) programs, word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, Internet browser programs, messaging programs, and so forth. The system 802 also includes a non-volatile storage area 868 within the memory 862. The non-volatile storage area 868 may be used to store persistent information that should not be lost if the system 802 is powered down. The application programs 866 may use and store information in the non-volatile storage area 868, such as e-mail or other messages used by an e-mail application, and the like. A synchronization application (not shown) also resides on the system 802 and is programmed to interact with a corresponding synchronization application resident on a host computer to keep the information stored in the non-volatile storage area 868 synchronized with corresponding information stored at the host computer. As should be appreciated, other applications may be loaded into the memory 862 and run on the mobile computing device 800 described herein (e.g., search engine, isolated collection engine, result set comparison module, weighting/scoring module, etc.).
The system 802 has a power supply 870, which may be implemented as one or more batteries. The power supply 870 might further include an external power source, such as an AC adapter or a powered docking cradle that supplements or recharges the batteries.
The system 802 may also include a radio interface layer 872 that performs the function of transmitting and receiving radio frequency communications. The radio interface layer 872 facilitates wireless connectivity between the system 802 and the “outside world,” via a communications carrier or service provider. Transmissions to and from the radio interface layer 872 are conducted under control of the operating system 864. In other words, communications received by the radio interface layer 872 may be disseminated to the application programs 866 via the operating system 864, and vice versa.
The visual indicator 820 may be used to provide visual notifications, and/or an audio interface 874 may be used for producing audible notifications via the audio transducer 825. In the illustrated embodiment, the visual indicator 820 is a light emitting diode (LED) and the audio transducer 825 is a speaker. These devices may be directly coupled to the power supply 870 so that when activated, they remain on for a duration dictated by the notification mechanism even though the processor(s) (e.g., processor 860 and/or special-purpose processor 861) and other components might shut down for conserving battery power. The LED may be programmed to remain on indefinitely until the user takes action to indicate the powered-on status of the device. The audio interface 874 is used to provide audible signals to and receive audible signals from the user. For example, in addition to being coupled to the audio transducer 825, the audio interface 874 may also be coupled to a microphone to receive audible input, such as to facilitate a telephone conversation. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, the microphone may also serve as an audio sensor to facilitate control of notifications, as will be described below. The system 802 may further include a video interface 876 that enables an operation of an on-board camera 830 to record still images, video stream, and the like.
A mobile computing device 800 implementing the system 802 may have additional features or functionality. For example, the mobile computing device 800 may also include additional data storage devices (removable and/or non-removable) such as, magnetic disks, optical disks, or tape. Such additional storage is illustrated in
Data/information generated or captured by the mobile computing device 800 and stored via the system 802 may be stored locally on the mobile computing device 800, as described above, or the data may be stored on any number of storage media that may be accessed by the device via the radio interface layer 872 or via a wired connection between the mobile computing device 800 and a separate computing device associated with the mobile computing device 800, for example, a server computer in a distributed computing network, such as the Internet. As should be appreciated such data/information may be accessed via the mobile computing device 800 via the radio interface layer 872 or via a distributed computing network. Similarly, such data/information may be readily transferred between computing devices for storage and use according to well-known data/information transfer and storage means, including electronic mail and collaborative data/information sharing systems.
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a system comprising: at least one processor; and memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, performs a method for rendering phantom results, the method comprising: receiving a first query for data associated with one or more isolated collections; generating a first result set for the first query, wherein the first result set comprises a set of information; using the first result set to generate a first graph, wherein the first graph comprises a visual representation of the set of information; receiving a second query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a second result set for the second query; comparing the second result set to the first result set to determine whether the second result set comprises the set of information; and when it is determined that the set of information is absent from the second result, generating a second graph comprising the visual representation, wherein the visual representation is modified to indicate the absence of the set of information, wherein the modification comprises increasing transparency of the visual representation. In some examples, the set of information corresponds to one or more tuples, wherein the one or more tuples comprise at least one of a resource and a relationship in the one or more isolated collections. In some examples, the first graph is a first graph database displaying the set of information using a first level of transparency, and the second graph is a second graph database displaying the set of information using a second level of transparency. In some examples, the method further comprises after generating the first result set, evaluating the first result set to identify the set of information; and assigning one or more weights to the set of information, wherein the one or more weights represent the presence of the set of information in the first result set. In some examples, generating the second result comprises: determining whether the second result set comprises the information set; and associating one or more weights with the determination. In some examples, comparing the first result set to the second result set comprises using the one or more weights associated with determining whether the second result set comprises the information set to modify the one or more weights assigned to the first information set. In some examples, the second graph is generated using the modified one or more weights assigned to the first information set. In some examples, modifying the visual representation comprises reducing at least one property of the visual representation selected from the group consisting of color, size, line weight and line style.
Aspects of the present disclosure further provide a method for rendering phantom results, the method comprising: receiving a first query for data associated with one or more isolated collections; generating a first result set for the first query, wherein the first result set comprises: a first set of information comprising a first resource, a second resource, and a first relationship, wherein the first relationship describes a first association between the first resource and the second resource; and a second set of information comprising a third resource, a fourth resource, and a second relationship, wherein the second relationship describes a second association between the third resource and the fourth resource; using the first result set to generate a first graph, wherein the first graph comprises a visual representation of the first set of information and the second set of information; receiving a second query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a second result set for the second query, wherein the second result set comprises the first set of information; comparing the second result set to the first result set; determining the second set of information is absent from the second result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the absence, wherein the modification comprises increasing a transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information. In some examples, the method further comprises: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises the first set of information; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the second set of information is absent from the third result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the absence, wherein the modification comprises further increasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information. In some examples, the method further comprises: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises the second set of information; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the second set of information is present in the third result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the presence, wherein the modification comprises decreasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information. In some examples, the method further comprises: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises a third set of information comprising a fifth resource, a sixth resource, and a third relationship, wherein the third relationship describes a third association between the fifth resource and the sixth resource; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the third set of information is absent from the second result set; and based on the determination, adding a visual representation of the third set of information to the first graph such that the first graph comprises the visual representation of the first set of information, the visual representation of the second set of information having increased transparency, and the visual representation of the third set of information. In some examples, increasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information includes setting the transparency to a value causing the visual representation of the second set of information to become fully transparent. In such example, the method may further comprise: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises at least the second set of information; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the second set of information is present in the third result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the presence of the second set of information, wherein the modification comprises decreasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information.
Aspects of the present disclosure further provide a system comprising: at least one processor; and memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, performs a method for rendering phantom results, the method comprising: receiving a first query for data associated with one or more isolated collections; generating a first result set for the first query, wherein the first result set comprises: a first set of information comprising a first resource, a second resource, and a first relationship, wherein the first relationship describes a first association between the first resource and the second resource; and a second set of information comprising a third resource, a fourth resource, and a second relationship, wherein the second relationship describes a second association between the third resource and the fourth resource; using the first result set to generate a first graph, wherein the first graph comprises a visual representation of the first set of information and the second set of information; receiving a second query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a second result set for the second query, wherein the second result set comprises the first set of information; comparing the second result set to the first result set; determining the second set of information is absent from the second result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the absence, wherein the modification comprises increasing a transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information. In some examples, the method further comprises: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises the first set of information; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the second set of information is absent from the third result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the absence, wherein the modification comprises further increasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information. In some examples, the method further comprises: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises the second set of information; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the second set of information is present in the third result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the presence, wherein the modification comprises decreasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information. In some examples, the method further comprises: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises a third set of information comprising a fifth resource, a sixth resource, and a third relationship, wherein the third relationship describes a third association between the fifth resource and the sixth resource; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the third set of information is absent from the second result set; and based on the determination, adding a visual representation of the third set of information to the first graph such that the first graph comprises the visual representation of the first set of information, the visual representation of the second set of information having increased transparency, and the visual representation of the third set of information. In some examples, increasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information includes setting the transparency to a value causing the visual representation of the second set of information to become fully transparent. In such example, the method may further comprise: receiving a third query associated with the one or more isolated collections; generating a third result set for the third query, wherein the third result set comprises at least the second set of information; comparing the third result set to the second result set; determining the second set of information is present in the third result set; and based on the determination, modifying the visual representation of the second set of information to indicate the presence of the second set of information, wherein the modification comprises decreasing the transparency of the visual representation of the second set of information.
Aspects of the present disclosure are described above with reference to block diagrams and/or operational illustrations of methods, systems, and computer program products according to aspects of the disclosure. The functions/acts noted in the blocks may occur out of the order as shown in any flowchart. For example, two blocks shown in succession may in fact be executed substantially concurrently or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality/acts involved.
The description and illustration of one or more aspects provided in this application are not intended to limit or restrict the scope of the disclosure as claimed in any way. The aspects, examples, and details provided in this application are considered sufficient to convey possession and enable others to make and use the best mode of claimed disclosure. The claimed disclosure should not be construed as being limited to any aspect, example, or detail provided in this application. Regardless of whether shown and described in combination or separately, the various features (both structural and methodological) are intended to be selectively included or omitted to produce an embodiment with a particular set of features. Having been provided with the description and illustration of the present application, one skilled in the art may envision variations, modifications, and alternate aspects falling within the spirit of the broader aspects of the general inventive concept embodied in this application that do not depart from the broader scope of the claimed disclosure.
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