US 11,080,903 B2 · Visualization with conditional characteristic

Abstract

A system includes determination of a first series of data points, each data point of the first series of data points comprising one or more dimension values and a value of a first measure, determination of a second series of data points, each data point of the second series of data points comprising one or more dimension values and a value of a second measure, determination of a condition associated with a relation between the first measure and the second measure and with a visual characteristic, evaluation of the condition with respect to a first portion of the first series of data points and a first portion of the second series of data points, determination of a first visual characteristic of a first area of a visualization based on the evaluation of the condition and the visual characteristic associated with the condition, and generation of a visualization comprising a first visualization of the first series of data points, a second visualization of the second series of data points, and the first area, wherein the first area exhibits the first visual characteristic.

A system comprising:

a user device including a browser application wherein the browser application contains a user interface component and an engine component, the browser application displaying a page on the browser application containing an input section and a display section, where conditions can be set in the input section, the user device to:
receive, from a user in the input section, one or more dimension values;
receive, from the user in the input section within one or more fields:
a first measure, a second measure, a first condition including a first operator that defines a first relationship between the first measure and the second measure and a second condition including a second operator that defines a second relationship between the first measure and the second measure, and a first visual characteristic associated with the first condition and a second visual characteristic associated with the second condition;
and
transmit a request comprising the one or more dimension values and the received:
first measure, second measure, first condition that defines the first relationship between the first measure and the second measure, second condition that defines the second relationship between the first measure and the second measure, the first visual characteristic associated with the first condition, and the second visual characteristic associated with the second condition;
and
a server device to:
receive the one or more dimension values, and the received:
first measure, second measure, first condition that defines the first relationship between the first measure and the second measure, the second condition that defines the second relationship between the first measure and the second measure, the first visual characteristic associated with the first condition, and the second visual characteristic associated with the second condition;
determine a first series of data points, each data point of the first series of data points comprising the one or more dimension values and a value of the first measure, wherein a dimension value is a hierarchical component of a dimension hierarchy, and the first measure is a numerical value to quantify the one or more dimension values;
determine a second series of data points, each data point of the second series of data points comprising the one or more dimension values and a value of the second measure;
determine a first visualization associated with the first series of data;
determine a second visualization associated with the second series of data;
determine a first area defined by a first portion of the first visualization and a first portion of the second visualization;
determine an application of the first visual characteristic based on the first condition, one or more values of the first measure associated with the first portion of the first visualization, and one or more values of the second measure associated with the first portion of the second visualization;
generate a combined visualization comprising the first visualization, the second visualization, and the first area, the first area exhibiting the application of the first visual characteristic;
transmit, in response to the request, the combined visualization to the engine component of the application at the user device;
provide corresponding HTML for the combined visualization at the engine component;
transmit the corresponding HTML to the user interface component of the user device;
and
render the corresponding HTML via the user interface component within the display section without requiring a full re-load of the page.

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Summary163 words

#Enterprise software systems receive, generate, and store data related to many aspects of an enterprise. Users operate reporting tools to access such data and display the data in useful formats, such as in graphic visualizations.

#Reporting tools may interact with a semantic layer defining a set of objects. Each object associates one or more physical entities (e.g., a physical database table, associated columns of one or more database tables, etc.) of one or more data sources with user-friendly names. These objects may be classified as dimensions, along which one may want to perform an analysis or report (e.g., Year, Country, Product), or measures (e.g., Sales, Profit), whose values can be determined for a given combination of dimension values.

#Conventional reporting tools provide many types of visualizations for graphically presenting values of one or more measures with respect to various combinations of dimension values. However, improved systems are desired to graphically represent relationships between the values of two or more measures within a visualization.

Brief description of the drawings9 figures

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system architecture according to some embodiments.

#FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a process according to some embodiments.

#FIG. 3 is an outward view of a displayed user interface according to some embodiments.

Detailed description3,327 words

#The following description is provided to enable any person in the art to make and use the described embodiments. Various modifications, however, will remain readily apparent to those in the art.

#Generally, some embodiments provide efficient representation of relationships between the values of two or more measures within a data visualization. According to some embodiments, at least one characteristic of the visualization depends upon a condition associated with the values of two or more depicted measures.

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram of architecture 100 according to some embodiments. Embodiments are not limited to architecture 100 or to a database architecture.

Facts

Application

15/372,741Filed 8 Dec 2016

Published

US 2018/0165842 A114 Jun 2018

Granted

3 Aug 2021

Term ends

11 May 2037

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 154 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification5 codes

G06T 11/26
Drawing from basic elements: drawing of charts or graphs
G06F 40/143
Tree-structured documents: markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
G06F 40/154
Transformation: tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
G06T
Image data processing or generation, in general

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