Techniques for hierarchical report tool session management
AssigneeTeradata US, Inc.
InventorsKaren Papierniak, Dennis Jeng, Jonathan Hugh Tebay
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Abstract
Techniques are presented for hierarchical report tool session management. A user interacts with a hierarchical reporting tool during a first session and reaches a specific nested level within the tool for a particular hierarchy being accessed by the user. At some point in time the user exits the tool (normally or abnormally). The specific nested level is maintained on behalf of the user. So, when the user initiates a second and subsequent session with the tool, the user is presented with the specific nested level when the tool is started for that subsequent session.
Claims21
A machine-implemented method, comprising:
- providing a reporting tool to a user;
- and
- recording a nested level reached by the user within the reporting tool when the user exits the reporting tool.
A machine-implemented method, comprising:
- detecting a login of a user to a reporting tool;
- acquiring previously saved session metadata for the user when the user last accessed the reporting tool during a prior session;
- and
- starting the reporting tool in a state that represents the saved session metadata on behalf of the user.
A machine-implemented system, comprising:
- a reporting tool implemented in a computer-readable storage medium and to process on a computer of a network;
- and
- a session manager implemented in a computer-readable storage medium and to process on the computer or a different computer of the network;
- wherein a user interacts with the reporting tool and navigates to a particular nested level during a session with the reporting tool and then exits the reporting tool and terminates the session, the session manager saves the nested level as a drill down path to automatically recreate for the user within the reporting tool when the user initiates subsequent sessions with the reporting tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.