US 8,914,731 B2Granted

Analyzing user behavior to enhance data display

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorSanjay Krishnamurthy

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for enhancing the display of data is provided. User interaction data describing the interactions of a plurality of users with a user interface component is stored. The user interaction data is analyzed to identify patterns of prior use of the user interface component. The operation of a three-tier architecture may be configured to enhance performance based on the patterns of prior use. For example, upon determining a certain percentage of users interact with the user interface component in a manner requiring the visual appearance of the user interface component to be updated to depict additional data not previously depicted, the additional data may be cached at an application tier or provided to a client before a user requests the additional data to minimize the delay in retrieving the additional data. The patterns of prior use may also be used to selectively initialize resources at the middle-tier.

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Dependent claims

A method for selectively providing data, the method comprising:

analyzing user interaction data that describes interactions of users with a user interface component incorporated as part of a web page, the web page comprising a tree of data that can be user configured into a state selected from among a set of configuration states of the user interface component, to determine a percentage of users that interact with said user interface component in a particular manner to depict said tree of data in a second configuration state of the user interface component that requires a visual appearance of said user interface component to be updated to depict additional data of nodes of said tree of data not previously depicted in a first configuration state of the user interface component;
determining whether said percentage of users that interact in the particular manner is greater than a threshold value, and responsive to said determining retrieving said additional data from a database via a database management system by use of at least one processor;
and
determining a particular size of a pool of resources based on an estimated workload, the estimated workload being determined based on patterns of prior use of the user interface component identified in the user interaction data, and forming said pool at least by instantiating one or more threads that are capable of performing work on at least a portion of the estimated workload.

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A system to retrieve data required to render a display, the system comprising at least a processor coupled to a memory, and the system further comprising:

means for analyzing user interaction data that describes interactions of users with a user interface component incorporated as part of a web page, the web page comprising a tree of data that can be user configured into a state selected from among a set of configuration states of the user interface component, to determine a percentage of users that interact with said user interface component in a particular manner that requires a visual appearance of said user interface component to be updated to depict additional data of nodes of said tree of data not previously depicted in a first configuration state of the user interface component;
means for determining whether said percentage of users that interact in the particular manner is greater than a threshold value;
means, responsive to said means for determining, for retrieving said additional data from a database via a database management system;
and
means for determining a particular size of a pool of resources based on an estimated workload, the estimated workload being determined based on patterns of prior use of the user interface component identified in the user interaction data, and for forming said pool at least by instantiating one or more threads that are capable of performing work on at least a portion of the estimated workload.

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One or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing one or more sequences of instructions for selectively providing data, which when executed by at least one processor perform:

analyzing user interaction data that describes interactions of users with a user interface component incorporated as part of a web page, the web page comprising a tree of data that can be user configured into a state selected from among a set of configuration states of the user interface component, to determine a percentage of users that interact with said user interface component in a particular manner to depict said tree of data in a second configuration state of the user interface component that requires a visual appearance of said user interface component to be updated to depict additional data of nodes of said tree of data not previously depicted in a first configuration state of the user interface component;
determining whether said percentage of users that interact in the particular manner is greater than a threshold value, and responsive to said determining retrieving said additional data from a database via a database management system;
and
determining a particular size of a pool of resources based on an estimated workload, the estimated workload being determined based on patterns of prior use of the user interface component identified in the user interaction data, and forming said pool at least by instantiating one or more threads that are capable of performing work on at least a portion of the estimated workload.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.