Livestock inventory and materials system with interactive graphical user interface
AssigneeThe Cattleman's Resource, Inc.
InventorsLori A. Janes, William C. Miller, III, Alan R. Davidson
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Abstract
A livestock and material inventory system having a database storing inventory data, at least one data explorer operable to access predetermined portions of data in the database, and a graphical user interface operable to display data accessed by the at least one data explorer to a user is provided. The graphical user interface includes a first window operable to display a hierarchical tree structure representation of the inventory data, and a second window operable to display a data summary associated with a selected node in the hierarchical tree structure.
Claims89
An interactive graphical user interface of a livestock and materials inventory system, comprising:
- at least one selectable inventory view;
- a first window operable to display a hierarchical tree structure of selectable nodes each respectively associated with a portion of inventory data maintained in a database, the hierarchical tree structure displayed according to a selected inventory view;
- and
- a second window operable to display a data summary associated with a selected node in the hierarchical tree structure, the displayed data summary comprising inventory data associated with the selected node and any child nodes in any branches of the selected node.
A livestock and material inventory system, comprising:
- a database storing inventory data;
- and
- a graphical user interface comprising:
- a first window operable to display a hierarchical tree structure of selectable nodes respectively associated with the inventory data and allow a user to select an inventory view of the inventory data;
- and
- a second window operable to display a data summary associated with a selected node in the inventory view, the data summary comprising inventory data associated with a selected node and any child nodes of any branches of the selected node.
A method of tracking livestock and materials inventory, comprising:
- selecting a business application environment;
- selecting a data explorer having access to specific predetermined sets of data in a database;
- selecting an inventory view from a plurality of inventory views;
- organizing and displaying the accessed data in a hierarchical tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes in a first window according to the selected inventory view and in response to the selected business application environment;
- selecting, in the first window, a node of the hierarchical tree structure;
- selecting a data summary representation in a second window;
- and
- displaying a data summary associated with the selected node and the selected data summary representation in the second window, the data summary comprising inventory data associated with the selected node and any child nodes below the selected node of any branches of the selected node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.