Method and apparatus for panel-based management of data

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing system to carry out functions comprising:

• receiving data objects from a plurality of sources, and storing the received data objects, wherein each data object defines a record of information regarding at least one of a device event or a device state, and wherein each data object has a timestamp;
• storing a plurality of panels each defining a respective association with a set of the received data objects, the panels including at least one of a time-based panel or a subject-matter panel, wherein a time-based panel is a panel defining an association with received data objects based on timestamps of the received data objects, and wherein a subject-matter panel is a panel defining an association with received data objects based on subject matter of the received data objects in accordance with a subject-matter filter of the subject-matter panel;
• causing a display of a device to display a graphical user interface having at least:
• (a) a general data-feed component for presenting indicia of the received data objects, wherein the indicia of the received data objects presented in the general data-feed component are selectable to cause the display to present the respectively indicated data objects,
• (b) a panel-presentation component for presenting indicia of previously created panels, wherein the presented indicia of the previously created panels include, for each of the previously created panels, presentation of an indicium of the set of received data objects associated with the previously created panel, and
• (c) a panel-definition component for receiving commands to create new panels and to further define the previously created panels, for presenting indicia of items selectable to be used as a basis to define a subject-matter filter respectively for each of at least one of the panels, and for receiving selection of one or more of the presented indicia of items to be used as a basis to define the subject-matter filter, wherein the items comprise (i) one or more of the received data objects and (ii) one or more semantic objects extracted from the received data objects;
• receiving data corresponding to input representing the selection of one or more of the presented indicia of items to be used as a basis to define the subject-matter filter for a first panel, and responsively defining the subject-matter filter for the first panel based on one or more attributes of the one or more items whose presented indicia were selected;
• determining that one or more of the received data objects defines a record that a user device presented particular information at user request, and responsively determining an attribute of the particular information and automatically creating and storing a second panel having a subject-matter filter keyed to the determined attribute;
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• receiving data corresponding to input representing one of the commands to create a new panel received through the panel-definition component, and responsively (i) creating the new panel and (ii) causing the display to present the indicia of items selectable to be used as a basis to define the subject-matter filter for the new panel.

A method comprising:

• receiving into a computing system, from a plurality of devices, a plurality of data objects each representing one or more of device event information and device state information;
• the computing system extracting one or more semantic objects from the received data objects;
• the computing system causing a display of a device to display indicia of (i) a plurality of the received data objects and (ii) a plurality of the semantic objects extracted from the received data objects;
• the computing system receiving data corresponding to input representing a selection of one or more of the displayed indicia, and the computing system responsively using the selection as a basis to define a first subject-matter filter for a first panel, wherein the selection comprises a selection of one or more of the displayed indicia of the plurality of received data objects, and wherein using the selection as a basis to define the first subject-matter filter comprises adopting as one or more attributes of the first subject-matter filter one or more attributes of the one or more data objects whose indicia were selected;
• the computing system causing the display to present the first panel;
• the computing system (i) receiving additional data objects, (ii) determining that the received additional data objects match the first subject-matter filter of the first panel, and (iii) responsive to the determining, causing the display to present indicia of the received additional data objects in association with the presented first panel;
• the computing system determining that one or more of the received data objects defines a record that a user device presented particular information at user request, and the computing system responsively determining an attribute of the particular information and automatically creating and storing a second panel having a second subject-matter filter keyed to the determined attribute;
• the computing system causing the display to present the second panel;
• the computing system storing the first panel in association with the received additional data objects;
• the computing system causing the display to discontinue presentation of the first panel;
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• the computing system subsequently receiving data representing input defining a request to re-present the first panel, and the computing system responsively causing the first panel to be re-presented.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing system to carry out functions comprising:

• receiving from a plurality of devices a plurality of data objects each representing one or more of device event information and device state information;
• extracting one or more semantic objects from the received data objects;
• causing a display of a device to present indicia of (i) a plurality of the received data objects and (ii) a plurality of the semantic objects extracted from the received data objects;
• receiving data corresponding to input representing a selection of one or more of the presented indicia, and using the selection as a basis to define a first subject-matter filter for a first panel, wherein the selection comprises a selection of one or more of the displayed indicia of the plurality of received data objects, and wherein using the selection as a basis to define the first subject-matter filter comprises adopting as one or more attributes of the first subject-matter filter one or more attributes of the one or more data objects whose indicia were selected;
• causing the display to present the first panel;
• receiving one or more additional data objects, determining that the one or more received additional data objects match the first subject-matter of the first panel, and responsive to the determining, (i) associating the first panel with the one or more received additional data objects and (ii) causing the display to present indicia of the one or more received additional data objects in association with the presented first panel;
• storing the first panel in association with the received additional data objects;
• determining that one or more received data objects defines a record that a user device presented particular information at user request, and responsively determining an attribute of the particular information and automatically creating and storing a second panel having a second subject-matter filter keyed to the determined attribute;
• causing the display to present the second panel;
• receiving data corresponding to input representing a request to create a time-based panel, and responsively creating and causing the display to present the time-based panel;
• while the display is presenting the time-based panel, receiving one or more further data objects and automatically causing the display to present the one or more received further data objects in association with the presented time-based panel;
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• storing the time-based panel in association with the one or more received further data objects.