Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090210388 | EFFICIENTLY DISCOVERING AND SYNTHESIZING MAPS FROM A LARGE CORPUS OF MAPS - Intent of a user is determined with respect to mapping information. A search is performed for relevant maps from a plurality of disparate sources. A subset of maps from a superset of available maps are identified that correlate to the determined intent, and the subset of maps are fused or synthesized to create a single map view that aggregates and combines relevant content from respective maps of the subset. | 08-20-2009 |
20090278848 | DRAWING FAMILIAR GRAPHS WHILE SYSTEM DETERMINES SUITABLE FORM - A graphical user interface system is provided. The system includes a graphical component to enable sketching of a diagram and a logical component to associate one or more data sources with the diagram. A visualization component adjusts the diagram in accordance with the one or more data sources. | 11-12-2009 |
20090287814 | VISUALIZATION OF STREAMING REAL-TIME DATA - A system facilitates dynamic data visualizations. The system includes an analysis component that periodically processes one or more incoming data streams to determine a visualization form from a plurality of visualization forms. A visualization component dynamically generates the visualization form based in part on the processing of the incoming data streams. | 11-19-2009 |
20090319449 | PROVIDING CONTEXT FOR WEB ARTICLES - An overwhelming number of articles are available everyday via the internet. Unfortunately, it is impossible to peruse more than a handful, and it is difficult to ascertain an article's social context. The techniques disclosed herein address this problem by harnessing implicit and explicit contextual information from social media. By extracting text surrounding a hyperlink to an article in a post and assessing the article as a function of content surrounding the hyperlink, an article's social context is determined and presented. Additionally, articles that are sufficiently similar in content may be grouped to establish a many-to-one relationship between posts and an article, creating a more accurate assessment. | 12-24-2009 |
20090322756 | USING VISUAL TECHNIQUES TO MANIPULATE DATA - Various types of data can be collected into a data set and related content and/or related concepts across the data in the data set and/or across search histories can be displayed as a visual representation. The related content/concepts can be presented as a function of incremental revealing of relationships. After reviewing the visual representation, a user can customize the data set and relationships by specifically excluding a related data segment. The visual representation can be applied across multiple searches or other obtained data. Through interaction with the visual representation, a user can drill down into common linkages of the data to more narrowly focus on a subset of the data and/or to refocus a search result and/or to provide annotations. | 12-31-2009 |
20100318852 | VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR SYSTEM TRACING INFRASTRUCTURE EVENTS - A system and method for identifying a root cause of a wait in a computer system are provided. Given the identity of a thread of interest and time window, a longest wait period for the thread of interest within the time window is identified. The longest wait period is used as a starting node to generate a ready tree by walking backwards through the data in a system trace to construct a tree of readying events that ready threads for running on a processor. A potentially anomalous chain of events is automatically identified and highlighted in the ready tree. A visualization of the ready tree is presented to a user so that the user can explore the events in the tree and annotate the automatically generated tree to aid in problem diagnosis. | 12-16-2010 |
20110082861 | MEDIA ASSET USAGE BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION - Media asset usage by geographic region is described. In embodiments, media asset interaction data is received from user devices, where the media asset interaction data corresponds to a media asset and identifies the media asset when recently played at any of the user devices. Geographic location data that corresponds to each of the user devices is also received. The geographic location data and the media asset interaction data that corresponds to the media asset are aggregated, and a geographic density map is generated as a visual indication of aggregated locations and interactions with the media asset in a geographic region. | 04-07-2011 |
20110295773 | ASSISTED CLUSTERING - Assisted clustering systems and methods are described herein that provide a user interface by which a user can easily create clusters and selectively associate data items with such clusters. Information regarding data item-cluster associations made by the user is processed by a recommendation engine to learn a clustering model. The clustering model is then be used to generate recommendations for the user regarding which unassociated data items should be associated with which clusters. In certain embodiments, after the user has determined that the clustering model is performing at a satisfactory level based on the quality of the recommendations, the user can cause the system to automatically cluster a large quantity of remaining unassociated data items. In accordance with further embodiments, a user can specify arbitrary data item types for clustering as well as features of such data types that should be considered in generating the clustering model. | 12-01-2011 |
20120313957 | Staged Animated Transitions for Aggregation Charts - A chart animation module is described herein that animates a transformation of a first chart into a second chart. The transformation, for instance, can correspond to a grouping-type transformation, a filtering-type transformation, or a transposing-type transformation. In one implementation, the chart animation module performs the transformation in such a manner so as to create a visual perception that there is a conservation of area and preservation of identify of constituent elements that are moved from the first chart to the second chart. The chart animation module can move the constituent elements in the form of blocks or particles. | 12-13-2012 |
20130265319 | VISUALIZATION OF CHANGING CONFIDENCE INTERVALS - Incremental query results and confidence interval values associated with respective incremental query results may be obtained. Visualization shape objects indicating uncertainty values may be determined, based on mapping values of respective incremental query results and confidence interval values to points in the associated visualization shape objects, the uncertainty values visualized based on proportional shapes of the visualization shape objects. At least one visualization comparison object representing a comparison of a plurality of distributions associated with the obtained incremental query results and confidence interval values may be determined. Display of the plurality of visualization shape objects and the at least one visualization comparison object may be initiated. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268520 | Incremental Visualization for Structured Data in an Enterprise-level Data Store - The subject disclosure is directed towards simulating query execution to provide incremental visualization for a global data set. A data store may be configured for searching at least a portion of a global data set being stored at an enterprise-level data store. In response to a user-issued query, partial query results are provided to a front-end interface for display to the user. The front-end interface also provides statistical information corresponding to the partial query results in relation to the global data set, which may be used to determine when a current set of query results becomes acceptable as a true/accurate estimate. | 10-10-2013 |
20140282276 | GESTURES INVOLVING DIRECT INTERACTION WITH A DATA VISUALIZATION - Functionality is described herein for directly interacting with parts of a data visualization. For instance, the functionality allows a user to directly interact with data items to filter them out from the data visualization, and later restore them to the data visualization. The functionality also allows a user to directly interact with an axis to sort the data items in the data visualization. The functionality also allows a user to directly interact with a label of the data visualization to choose a new label, and to reorganize the information represented by the data visualization in response thereto. Further, before finalizing any update to the data visualization, the functionality may provide a preview of the updated data visualization. | 09-18-2014 |