SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE FACTOR SORTING AND USER INTERFACE THEREOF

摘要

A system and method for multiple factor sorting and a user interface thereof are described. The system allows a user to quickly articulate and convey to a computing system, through the use of multiple variably-weighted factors, the nuance of the user's thought process as it relates to retrieving information or making a decision. When a person retrieves information and desires to sort into an order a plurality of items and where the user desires to sort the order of items based on a multiplicity of factors, the system provides a graphical, modifiable representation of the factors that enables the user to temporarily interrelate and variably prioritize those factors by applying input to modify the graphical representation of the factors such that as the user increasingly prioritizes one factor, the remaining factor(s) are proportionately decreased in priority, such change(s) of prioritizations subsequently resulting in a reordering of the items to reflect the change(s).

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
obtaining two or more inter-related factors; sorting results using the two or more inter-related factors into a multiple factor sorted set of results, wherein when one factor has its weight changed in a first direction, the other inter-related factors have their weight changed in a second opposite direction so that a total weighting of all of the inter-related factors is constant; and generating a multiple factor sorted set of results, the multiple factor sorted set of results listing each search result.