US 10,592,526 B2Granted

Multi-view control on data set

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsChairy Cheung, Taurean Jones, Euan Peter Garden

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Abstract

A user interface that includes components that each provide a view on the underlying data set, and also provide controls for editing or preparing the data set. The user interface components include a detail user interface component that displays a detail view on the data set, and summary user interface component(s) that each display a corresponding summary view on the data set. A promotion control promotes a summary view on the data set to a detailed view on the data set, and corresponding changes the controls usable in the promoted detail view. This allows the user to have a wide variety of views on the data set, and corresponding controls appropriate for that view. Thus, the user can take the most efficient and intuitive approach to editing or preparing the data, thereby allowing data preparation to be more efficient, intuitive and likely correct.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A computing system comprising:

one or more processor(s);
and
one or more computer-readable media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processor(s) to cause the computing system to display a user interface comprising:
a plurality of user interface components, each user interface component concurrently displaying a different view of a data set, each of at least some of the different views having one or more control(s) that are used to interact with the data set, the plurality of user interface components comprising at least:
a detail user interface component that displays a detail view of the data set according to a present version of the data set;
and
one or more summary user interface component(s) that each display a different summary view of the present version of the data set, wherein at least one of the detail user interface component or one of the one or more summary user interface component(s) further comprises:
a navigation control that, when selected, causes the respective component to display a particular prior version of the data set without returning the data set itself to the particular prior version;
and
an undo control that, when selected, causes the respective component to display a previous version of the data set and to return the data set itself to the previous version such that the detail user interface component and the one or more summary user interface component(s) each display the previous version of the data set;
and
a promotion control that is associated with a visualization of particular data included among the data set, the promotion control, when activated, causing the particular data's visualization to be promoted from being visualized as a summary view displayed in a summary user interface component to being visualized as a detail view displayed in the detail user interface component,
wherein selection of the promotion control further causes a change to be made from a set of one or more controls presented in the summary view to a new set of one or more controls usable in the promoted detail view,
wherein, in addition to promoting the particular data's visualization, selection of the promotion control while the particular data's visualization is visualized as the summary view additionally causes the promotion control to be removed when the particular data's visualization is subsequently visualized as the detail view such that the promotion control is displayed only when the summary view is displayed and the promotion control is not displayed when the detail view is displayed, and
wherein a set of promotion rules are maintained to determine how the particular data's visualization is to be promoted from being visualized as the summary view to being visualized as the detail view, the promotion rules being dependent on historical data identifying preferences of one or more users.

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A method for causing a user interface to be displayed on a display of a computing system, the method comprising:

causing a plurality of user interface components to be concurrently displayed at the user interface such that each user interface component displays a different view of a data set, the plurality of user interface components comprising at least:
a detail user interface component that displays a detail view of the data set;
a plurality of summary user interface components that each display a corresponding summary view of the data set, each of at least some of the summary views having one or more control(s),
wherein at least one of the detail user interface component or the plurality of summary user interface components displays a present version of the data set while at least one other of the detail user interface component or the plurality of summary user interface components simultaneously displays a view of a prior version of the data set;
and
a promotion control that is associated with a visualization of particular data included among the data set, the promotion control, when activated, causing the particular data's visualization to be promoted from being visualized as a summary view displayed in a particular one of the plurality of summary user interface components to being visualized as a detail view displayed in the detail user interface component,
wherein, in addition to promoting the particular data's visualization, selection of the promotion control while the particular data's visualization is visualized as the summary view additionally causes the promotion control to be removed when the particular data's visualization is subsequently visualized as the detail view such that the promotion control is displayed only when the summary view is displayed and the promotion control is not displayed when the detail view is displayed, and
wherein a set of promotion rules are maintained to determine how the particular data's visualization is to be promoted from being visualized as the summary view to being visualized as the detail view, the promotion rules being dependent on historical data identifying preferences of one or more users.

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A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processor(s) of a computing system, cause the computing system to at least:

cause a plurality of user interface components to be simultaneously displayed at a user interface, each of the plurality of user interface components displaying a different view of a data set, including at least:
a detail user interface component that displays a detail view of a present version of the data set;
a plurality of summary user interface component(s) that each display a corresponding summary view on the data set simultaneously with the detail user interface component, each of at least some of the summary views having one or more control(s), wherein at least one of the plurality of summary user interface component(s) displays the data set according to a prior version of the data set that differs from the present version of the data set;
and
a promotion control that is associated with a visualization of particular data included among the data set, the promotion control, when activated, causing the particular data's visualization to be promoted from being visualized as a summary view displayed in a particular one of the plurality of summary user interface components to being visualized as a particular detail view displayed in the detail user interface component,
wherein, in addition to promoting the particular data's visualization, selection of the promotion control while the particular data's visualization is visualized as the summary view additionally causes the promotion control to be removed when the particular data's visualization is subsequently visualized as the particular detail view such that the promotion control is displayed only when the summary view is displayed and the promotion control is not displayed when the particular detail view is displayed, and
wherein a set of promotion rules are maintained to determine how the particular data's visualization is to be promoted from being visualized as the summary view to being visualized as the particular detail view, the promotion rules being dependent on historical data identifying preferences of one or more users;
and
causing the data set to be altered in response to detection of user interaction with the at least one summary user interface component displaying the prior version of the data set, the alteration comprising at least returning the present version of the data set to the prior version of the data set such that the detail user interface component is subsequently caused to display a corresponding detail view of the prior version of the data set and the at least one summary user interface component is caused to display the prior version of the data set.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.