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US 8,520,002 · App. 13/365,523 · Granted Aug 27, 2013

Virtual systems for spatial organization, navigation, and presentation of information

Inventor: Thomas M. Stambaugh (Somerville, MA)
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Patent No.
US 8,520,002
App. No.
13/365,523
Granted
Aug 27, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Organizing information around a specific spatial domain facilitates managing objects presented in visualization layers of the spatial domain. A first portion of a first program for organizing and mapping information around a specific spatial domain is executed by a first virtual system that is created in a program execution environment operable on a network server. In response to the first virtual system invoking a continuation, a second virtual system is created to execute a second portion of the first program. Invoking the continuation in the program execution environment facilitates each of the first and second virtual systems providing only the capabilities necessary to execute their respective portion of the first program. Optionally, executing the first program includes interpreting the first program with a second program.

Claims (14)

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor;

a program execution environment operable on at least one network server;

a first program for performing at least one of identifying diseases and syndromes of a human genome, associating diseases with each syndrome, rendering a human genome spatial domain of relationships of diseases and syndromes, and presenting markers that represent the diseases on a probe selection map that represents at least one visualization layer of the spatial domain;

a dynamic tower of instances to run the human genome rendering on the at least one visualization layer of the spatial domain, the tower comprising:

a first virtual system operable in the program execution environment for executing a first portion of the first program on one level of the dynamic tower, wherein executing the first portion of the first program includes invoking a continuation; and

a second virtual system operable in the program execution environment for executing a second portion of the first program on another level of the dynamic tower in response to the invoked continuation, wherein the second virtual system includes at least one capability required to execute the second portion of the first program that is different from all capabilities of the first virtual system, said second portion of the first program is necessary for rendering the human genome and wherein said invoked continuation performs a level shifting operation to shift execution up or down on the levels of the dynamic tower wherein the lowest level of the dynamic tower provides a greatest common denominator of capabilities of the plurality of virtual systems and wherein the second virtual system has capabilities be and that of the lowest level of the dynamic tower.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein executing the first program includes interpreting the first program with a second program.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first virtual system terminates upon completion of invoking the continuation.

4. The system of claim 1 , further including a datastore accessible by a plurality of networked servers for storing a plurality of data entries selected from a set consisting of: disease markers, syndromes, laboratory markers, probes, relationships of diseases with syndromes, relationships of syndromes with probes, and at least one visualization layer.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the first virtual system and the second virtual system communicate with the datastore.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein at least a portion of the plurality of entries in the datastore is immutable.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein executing the first program on the second virtual system comprises interpreting the first program.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least two instances of the dynamic tower of instances execute on different physical servers.

Continuity (8)
Continuation 13104067 · May 10, 2011
Continuation 12437013 · May 7, 2009
Continuation In Part 11865265 · Oct 1, 2007
Provisional Application 61051052 · May 7, 2008
Provisional Application 61079565 · Jul 10, 2008
Provisional Application 61122163 · Dec 12, 2008
Provisional Application 60827516 · Sep 29, 2006
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