Graphical user interface, method, program and apparatus
OwnerGeorge Walters, David Mcgahan +1inventors
InventorsGeorge Walters, David Mcgahan, Frank Congson
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Abstract
A GUI for displaying tabular data, each row being divided into cells; the GUI including a frame within which cells are displayed; in a first display state a selected cell comprises a selectable element within the cell, the selectable element being highlighted according to input from a user input mechanism, the GUI executes an action in response to a trigger input from the user input mechanism while highlighted; and in a second display state, the selectable element is not visible.
Claims13
A computing apparatus comprising a processor, a memory, and a display unit, the memory including a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor and display unit to implement a graphical user interface for displaying an interactive report including one or more rows of tabular data, each row of tabular data being divided into one or more cells each corresponding to a column;
- the graphical user interface including an interactive report viewing frame within which a plurality of the cells are displayed at a time, wherein a single cell at a time from among the displayed cells is a selected cell, the single cell being selectable by input from a user input mechanism;
- each displayed cell being displayed in a first display state when the cell is the selected cell, and a second display state when the cell is not the selected cell, wherein
- in the first display state, the cell comprises a primary element at a first location within the cell, and a secondary element at a second location within the cell, the primary element being a data point of the tabular data, and the secondary element being selectively highlighted according to input from the user input mechanism, the graphical user interface being configured to execute a secondary element action in response to a trigger input from the user input mechanism while the secondary element is highlighted;
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- in the second display state, the cell comprises the primary element at the first location within the cell, and the secondary element is not visible within the cell,
- wherein the secondary element action is to display in the graphical user interface an overlay menu including an option to associate a selected annotation with the selected cell, the selected annotation being selected from the overlay menu, the overlay menu comprising one or more previously input annotations as individually selectable menu items, the selected annotation being represented in the selected cell by a tertiary element, the tertiary element being an annotation symbol mapping to the selected annotation.
A server computer comprising a memory and a network interface, the server computer being configured to serve to a client computing apparatus over the network interface, a graphical user interface for displaying an interactive report including one or more rows of tabular data, each row of tabular data being divided into one or more cells each corresponding to a column;
- the graphical user interface including an interactive report viewing frame within which a plurality of the cells are displayed at a time, wherein a single cell at a time from among the displayed cells is a selected cell, the single cell being selectable by input from a user input mechanism;
- each displayed cell being displayed in a first display state when the cell is the selected cell, and a second display state when the cell is not the selected cell, wherein
- in the first display state, the cell comprises a primary element at a first location within the cell, and a secondary element at a second location within the cell, the primary element being a data point of the tabular data, and the secondary element being selectively highlighted according to input from the user input mechanism, the graphical user interface being configured to execute a secondary element action in response to a trigger input from the user input mechanism while the secondary element is highlighted;
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- in the second display state, the cell comprises the primary element at the first location within the cell, and the secondary element is not visible within the cell,
- wherein the secondary element action is to display in the graphical user interface an overlay menu including an option to associate a selected annotation with the selected cell, the selected annotation being selected from the overlay menu, the overlay menu comprising one or more previously input annotations as individually selectable menu items, the selected annotation being represented in the selected cell by a tertiary element being an annotation symbol mapping to the selected annotation.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- at a graphical user interface, displaying an interactive report including one or more rows of tabular data, each row of tabular data being divided into one or more cells each corresponding to a column;
- at the graphical user interface, displaying an interactive report viewing frame within which a plurality of the cells are displayed at a time, wherein a single cell at a time from among the displayed cells is a selected cell, the single cell being selectable by input from a user input mechanism;
- each displayed cell being displayed in a first display state when the cell is the selected cell, and a second display state when the cell is not the selected cell, wherein
- in the first display state, the cell comprises a primary element at a first location within the cell, and a secondary element at a second location within the cell, the primary element being a data point of the tabular data, and the secondary element being selectively highlighted according to input from the user input mechanism, the computer-implemented method further comprising executing a secondary element action in response to a trigger input from the user input mechanism while the secondary element is highlighted;
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- in the second display state, the cell comprises the primary element at the first location within the cell, and the secondary element is not visible within the cell,
- wherein the secondary element action is to display in the graphical user interface an overlay menu including an option to associate a selected annotation with the selected cell, the selected annotation being selected from the overlay menu, the overlay menu comprising one or more previously input annotations as individually selectable menu items, the selected annotation being represented in the selected cell by a tertiary element being an annotation symbol mapping to the selected annotation.
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