US 2020/0050994 A1Published application

Business performance bookmarks

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsDavid M. Enyeart, Kevin P. McAuliffe, Billy R. Rowe, JR., Eric D. Wayne

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Abstract

A performance bookmark of a dashboard view is created, e.g., in response to a triggering event. The performance bookmark includes a name, a timestamp, a reference to the visual properties of the dashboard view at the time that the performance bookmark is created and a reference to relationships of information displayed by the dashboard view at the time the performance bookmark is created. When a performance bookmark is recalled, the dashboard view is configured to correspond with the visual properties and relationships of information recorded at the time the select performance bookmark was created. Performance bookmarks are instances and relationships, and are not limited to snap shots captured of a static visual image of a dashboard screen from a corresponding dashboard user interface. As such, a retrieved dashboard view of a performance bookmark that is recalled from the bookmark system is live and supports user interaction.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of bookmarking a dashboard view in a dashboard system, the method comprising:

obtaining, by an information management module of a dashboard system of a computer, specified performance information from an operational environment, and transforming the information into specified metrics and visual metaphors;
displaying, by a dashboard user interface of the dashboard system, a visualization of said specified metrics and visual metaphors in a dashboard view for monitoring the visualizations of the metrics and visual metaphors to monitor the specified performance information from the operational environment;
in response to detecting a triggering event, constructing, by the computer, a performance bookmark of the dashboard view to capture a state of the specified performance information, as viewed through the dashboard user interface, for a specified time;
storing, by the computer, the constructed performance bookmark;
receiving, by the computer, from the dashboard user interface, instructions to recall the constructed performance bookmark;
in response to the instructions, recalling, by the computer, the constructed performance bookmark;
based on the recalled constructed performance bookmark, configuring, by the computer, the dashboard system to display on the dashboard user interface, in a recalled dashboard view, the specified metrics and visual metaphors for the specified performance information when said performance bookmark was constructed to enable an operator to retrieve and use the information of the recalled dashboard view as measured at a previous point in time;
and
the operator interacting with the recalled dashboard view to interact with data from the past.

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A system to bookmark a dashboard view in a dashboard system, comprising:

one or more processor units;
and
a memory unit in communication with the one or more processor units, the memory unit storing executable code, executable by the one or more processor units to:
obtain specified performance information from an operational environment, and transform the information into specified metrics and visual metaphors;
display by a dashboard user interface of the dashboard system, a visualization of said specified metrics and visual metaphors in a dashboard view for monitoring the visualizations of the metrics and visual metaphors to monitor the specified performance information from the operational environment;
in response to detecting a triggering event, construct a performance bookmark of the dashboard view to capture a state of the specified performance information, as viewed through the dashboard user interface, for a specified time;
store the constructed performance bookmark;
receive by the computer, from the dashboard user interface, instructions to recall the constructed performance bookmark;
in response to the instructions, recall the constructed performance bookmark;
based on the recalled constructed performance bookmark, configure the dashboard system to display on the dashboard user interface, in a recalled dashboard view, the specified metrics and visual metaphors for the specified performance information when said performance bookmark was constructed to enable an operator to retrieve and use the information of the recalled dashboard view as measured at a previous point in time;
and
receive from the operator interactions with the recalled dashboard view to interact with data from the past.

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A computer program product executable by a computer, to bookmark a dashboard view in a dashboard system, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, executable by the computer, the computer usable program code comprising:
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to obtain specified performance information from an operational environment, and transform the information into specified metrics and visual metaphors;
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to display by a dashboard user interface of the dashboard system, a visualization of said specified metrics and visual metaphors in a dashboard view for monitoring the visualizations of the metrics and visual metaphors to monitor the specified performance information from the operational environment;
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to, in response to detecting a triggering event, construct a performance bookmark of the dashboard view to capture a state of the specified performance information, as viewed through the dashboard user interface, for a specified time;
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to store the constructed performance bookmark;
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to receive by the computer, from the dashboard user interface, instructions to recall the constructed performance bookmark;
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to, in response to the instructions, recall the constructed performance bookmark;
computer usable program code configured, when executed by the computer, to, based on the recalled constructed performance bookmark, configure the dashboard system to display on the dashboard user interface, in a recalled dashboard view, the specified metrics and visual metaphors for the specified performance information when said performance bookmark was constructed to enable an operator to retrieve and use the information of the recalled dashboard view as measured at a previous point in time;
and
receive from the operator interactions with the recalled dashboard view to interact with data from the past.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/654,690Filed 16 Oct 2019
Priority: 19 Jan 2007
Published: 13 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 10/06393
Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations: score-carding, benchmarking or key performance…
G06Q 40/00
Finance
G06F 16/447
Browsing; Visualisation therefor: temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
G06Q 10/06395
Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations: quality analysis or management

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