US 2018/0004374 A1Published application

Process visualization toolkit

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsHendrik van den Broek, Chadwick Chow, Wilson Louie

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Abstract

A process visualization toolkit includes micro-component templates and application programmer's interfaces (APIs) to build a process visualization and show it in a graphical user interface (GUI) on a computer screen. Micro-components share compatible display properties that relate to process visualization. The APIs allow customization, but also allow mixing micro-components with components in standard technologies, such as HTML. Shared properties include display settings, position settings, time settings, and the time type (calendar time, work time, relative time). A time axis micro-component includes functions to convert time to pixel position, and pixel position to time, based on the time type. Developers add functionality and interactive functions using a standard language such as JavaScript, and may customize display rendering using, for example, cascaded stylesheets.

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Dependent claims

A method for creating a process visualization for display in a graphical user interface (GUI) on a computer's screen, using a process visualization toolkit installed on the computer, wherein the toolkit comprises:

(a) one or more process visualization micro-component templates, each micro-component comprising:
a first display size property, denoting a display size in a first direction;
a second display size property, denoting a display size in a second direction;
a display scale property, denoting a ratio between the display size in the first direction and a time duration;
a start time property;
a time duration property;
a time type property to indicate a selection of an available time type;
a display position property;
and
one or more shapes to be displayed in the GUI;
and
(b) an application programmer's interface (API) for each micro-component, comprising functions to:
show the micro-component;
customize rendering of the one or more shapes;
update displayed information;
and
fire at least one of an event and a signal upon receiving a user input;
and wherein the method comprises:
selecting a first micro-component from the toolkit;
determining a process visualization default layout including the first micro-component;
determining public layout parameters and public non-layout parameters;
initializing layout parameters including position-related properties to default values to create the default layout;
adding a function using the API;
adding a custom function;
creating an object including the default layout, and initializing at least a portion of the layout parameters including position-related properties to non-default values;
initializing the time type, start time, and time duration properties;
and
showing the object in the GUI.

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