Patents Assigned to Tableau Software LLC
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Patent number: 11755722Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing sandboxed application extensions. A first request that include includes information that identifies an extension may be provided to an extension server. Information included in a first response may be employed to instantiate an extension shell that corresponds to the extension and embed it in the hosting application such that the extension shell is associated with a first security policy included in the first response. A second request may be provided to the extension server based on information included in the extension shell such that the second request includes an identifier associated with an extension body that corresponds to the extension shell. The first security policy or the second security policy may be employed to enable one or more of the extension shell or the extension body to just access the hosting application or just access the extension server.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Lee Benjamin Graber, Michael Brian Kovner, Sean Daye Mann, Brett Allen Taylor
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Patent number: 11734358Abstract: A computing device displays an initial data visualization according to an initial visual specification that specifies a data source, visual variables, and data fields from the data source. The computing device receives a natural language command that includes a user request for information from the data source. The computing device identifies one or more keywords from the natural language command and determines, based on the keywords and one or more of (i) the data source, (ii) the visual variables, and/or (iii) the data fields of the initial visual specification, that the request indirectly specifies a first visual characteristic in the initial visual specification. The computing device generates one or more queries in accordance with the determining. The computing device executes the queries to retrieve data for a modified data visualization. The computing device generates and displays the modified data visualization.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Melanie K. Tory, Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Alex Djalali
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Patent number: 11720240Abstract: A method provides visual analysis of datasets. A user selects a data source. In response, the system presents a natural language interface for analysis of data in the data source and presents a map widget for selecting geospatial data points from the data source. A user provides a first user input to specify an incomplete natural language command directed to the data source and provides a second user input to select a region in the map widget. In response to the first user input and the second user input, the system generates and displays a map data visualization according to the first user input and the second user input, including a linguistic description of data points in the selected region. The system continues to display the selected region in the map widget. The map widget is configured to update the data visualization according to user modification of the selected region.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Sarah E. Battersby, Tracy Wong
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Patent number: 11715245Abstract: A method generates map visualizations with multiple map layers. A user selects a data source with geographic data. A device displays a data visualization user interface, including a schema information region with data fields, and shelf regions that defining characteristics for a data visualization. The user selects a first geographic data, and the user interface generates a map data visualization using coordinates associated with the first geographic data field. The visualization includes a first plurality of data marks in a first layer. The user selects a second geographic data field. In response, the user interface displays a new layer icon. Upon activation of the new layer icon by the second geographic data field, the user interface superimposes a second layer over the existing map data visualization to form an updated map data visualization. The second layer includes a second plurality of data marks corresponding to the second geographic data field.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Rodion Degtyar, Bryan Alexander Feddern, Steven Richard Hollasch, Raphael Hsieh, Lauren Lea Jackson, Dirk Karis, Vladimir Kondrashov, Ashwin Kumar, Jialin Le, John Michael Lounsbery, Kent Marten, Patrick Kenneth McKay, Jonathan D. Que, Yang Su, Dan Zheng, Roger Bruce Dubbs, III
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Patent number: 11704319Abstract: A computing device receives user selection of a data source. The computing device receives a user input to specify a level of detail (LOD) expression, which includes a first keyword, a SORT keyword, and an analytic expression. In response to the user input, the computing device identifies one or more data fields from the data source. The device translates the LOD expression into one or more executable database queries referencing the identified data fields. The computing device executes the queries to retrieve data from the data source. The computing device generates and displays a data visualization using the retrieved data.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Alvin Edward Jou, Bethany Meaghan Lyons, Jeffrey Mark Booth, Jr.
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Patent number: 11704849Abstract: A computing device generates a first set of glyphs from a first data set. Each glyph in the first set of glyphs represents the same set of user-selected columns in a first row of the plurality of rows in the data set. For each glyph in the first set of glyphs, the computing device defines a set of marks to be displayed. Each mark is defined by one or more visual features, with a respective visual feature assigned to each column of the user-selected columns. Each visual feature is displayed with a visual property determined based on a data value in the first row for the respective column. A user specifies a specific visual feature for a first mark from the first set of glyphs. The computing device generates a second set of glyphs. Each glyph in the second set of glyphs includes a mark with the specific visual feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Matthew Michael Brehmer, Carmen Paige Hull, Robert Kosara
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Patent number: 11698933Abstract: A computing device receives from a user a partial natural language input related to a data source. The computing device receives an additional keystroke corresponding to the partial natural language input. The partial natural language input and the additional keystroke comprise a character string. In response to the additional keystroke, the computing device generates one or more interpretations corresponding to entities in the data source. The computing device displays the interpretations. In some implementation, the character string comprises a sequence of terms, and the device displays the interpretations in a dropdown menu adjacent to the most recently entered term in the sequence. In some implementations, the dropdown menu includes a plurality of rows, each row displaying a respective data value and a respective data field corresponding to the respective data value. Some implementations display a statistical distribution of data values for a data field (displayed adjacent to the first interpretation).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Ryan Andrew Atallah, Yukiko Ishida Anonuevo
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Patent number: 11687571Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing a data model that includes data objects associated with layers of the data model may be provided. A lineage model that includes lineage objects that has one or more lineage objects associated with a layer may be provided. A lineage object associated with a layer may be activated. A first portion data objects may be determined based on the activated lineage object. An anchor object may be determined from the first portion of data objects. A search of the data model may be employed to provide dependency information based on a position of the anchor data object in the data model. A second portion of data objects may be determined based on the dependency information. A report that includes a list of the second portion of data objects, the dependency information, or the like, may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Tyler James-Buker Doyle, Graeme Riley Britz, Jonathan Joseph Bryak, Cassius David Butcher, Jun Ho Kim, Jiyoung Oh
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Patent number: 11669673Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing character encoding. A plurality characters that are each encoded as code units based on a character code may be provided such that the code units for each character represents a code point of a character encoding scheme. An encoding model may be determined based on the character code, one or more processor features, and a target character code. Process features may be employed to transform the code units into target code units based on the encoding model such that the target code units are based on the target character code and such that the target code units encode the code point for each character. The plurality of target characters may be provided to a target stream such that each target character may be encoded as the target code units.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventor: Clark Richard Cyr
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Patent number: 11651003Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a display engine that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a graph panel and a visualization panel may be generated. The graph panel may receive graph related inputs or interactions. Graph information based on the graph related inputs or interactions and a data source may be generated. A graph model based on the graph information and the data source may be generated. Elements that correspond to objects in the graph model or relationships in the graph model may be displayed in the graph panel. The graph information and the graph model may be employed to execute a query that provides a data model based on results of the query. The data model may be employed to provide a visualization that is displayed in the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Andrew C. Beers, Jun Ho Kim, Ryan Andrew Atallah, Scott Sherman, Eleanor Page Darby Fields, Jeffrey Jon Weir
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Patent number: 11605189Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data using a network computer. A modeling engine may provide a data model that includes a plurality of data objects and a display model that includes a plurality of display objects based on the plurality of data objects. Parameter action objects may be associated with display objects in the display model. In response to an activation of the parameter action objects, values associated with display objects may be assigned to the parameter associated with a parameter action object and actions associated with the parameter may be executed to modify the display model.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Filippos Lymperopoulos, Bethany Meaghan Lyons, Amy Nicole Forstrom, Allison Anne Whilden, John Paul Rudolph, Benjamin Tonatiuh Medina-Orton, Dennis Nathan Bromley, Ruyi Shen, Amar Singh Lakhian, Andrew Alex Kim, Lisa Ann Bailey, Roxanne Roberta Agerone
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Patent number: 11579760Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data visualizations. Candidate data fields from a data source may be determined based on a search expression. The candidate data fields may be displayed in the model panel. A working data model may be generated based on a portion of the candidate data fields such that the portion of the candidate data fields may be included in the working data model. Visualizations may be determined based on recommendation models and the working data model such that a portion of the visualizations may be determined based on shared data fields that may be included in the working data model and the visualizations. A working visualization may be determined based on a visualization listed in the display panel and the working data model such that data fields included in the working data model may be associated with the working visualization.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventor: Jun Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11573807Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing user interfaces. User interface (UI) models associated with concepts may be provided such that the UI models include visualizations. Other concepts may be associated with a data model based on fields of the data model. Characteristics of the concepts associated with each UI model and the other concepts associated with the data model may be compared to each other such that results of each comparison may be employed to generate a score for each UI model. The UI models may be ordered based on each score. A report that includes a rank ordered list of the UI models may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventor: Robert Lloyd Kincaid
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Patent number: 11550815Abstract: Embodiments are directed to generating metrics based on visualizations. A dashboard that may be associated with source visualizations display a current value of metrics from source visualization models. A classifier may automatically use characteristics from the source visualizations to determine metrics for the source visualization. The source visualization models may be sample to provide values of the metrics across time, at a sampling rate determined by a metric profile. The sampled values may be stored with time values in a metric data store such that the time values may correspond to when the values sampled from the visualization. Metric visualizations may be generated based on the values and the time values such that the metric visualizations display previously sampled values of the metrics.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventor: Andrew C. Beers
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Patent number: 11537490Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing event information. A plurality of events associated with entities may be provided. A plurality of state types may be determined based on the plurality of events such that each state type is associated with a state. State keys associated with each entity may be determined based on events associated with each entity and the state types. A state stream for each entity may be provided based on their state keys such that each state stream may be an ordered sequence of the keys associated with each entity. In response to a query that includes a pattern filter, the pattern filter may be employed to determine a portion of the entities based on the state stream for each entity such that the pattern filter matches the state stream for each of the portion of the entities.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Michael John Arvold, Ross Thomas Bunker, Daniel Philip Cory, Vivek Anup Maharajh, Britta Claire Nielsen
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Patent number: 11422985Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data models. A data source that includes records may be provided. Source fields may be determined based on the records and the source fields may be displayed in a source panel. A data model that includes a source data object may be displayed. Relationships between the source fields may be determined based on values in the records. In response to providing a relationship between the source fields, a data object that includes a key field and one or more data fields that correspond to the relationship may be generated. The data model may be modified to include the data object and to remove the source fields that correspond to the data fields.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Michael John Arvold, Ross Thomas Bunker, Daniel Philip Cory, Daniel William DeKlotz, Vivek Anup Maharajh, Britta Claire Nielsen, Douglas Alan Thomae
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Patent number: 11423217Abstract: Embodiments are directed to visualizing data. A graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a shelf panel and a display panel may be generated. Column fields may be generated and displayed in the shelf panel based on a data source or a table specification. The table specification may be employed to generate a table view that may be displayed in the display panel such that the table view includes columns that correspond to each column field. Data items may be determined based on the data source and the column fields such that each column field corresponds to a portion of the data items. Each portion of the data items may be displayed in a column of the table view that corresponds to the column field that corresponds to the portion of the data items.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventor: Andrew C. Beers
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Patent number: 11404030Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing display hardware for visualizing data a network computer. A modeling engine may provide a data model includes a plurality of data objects and a display model that includes a plurality of display objects that may be based on the plurality of data objects. Action objects may be associated with display objects in the display model. A display engine may display the display model on a hardware display based on context information that includes performance characteristics of the hardware display. In response to a trigger events, action objects may be displayed on the hardware display based on the context information. In response to detecting input signals associated with the action objects the display model may be modified based on the action objects. The modified display model may be displayed on the hardware display based on the context information.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Vasily Khudyakov, Jewel Loree, Felipe Luis Naranjo
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Patent number: 11397746Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data visualizations. A primary visualization that is associated with a data model may be provided such that the primary visualization may be displayed in a display panel. Insight items may be generated based on the primary visualization and the data model such that the insight items may correspond to one or more visualizations that may share one or more portions of the data model and such that the insight items may be displayed in an insight panel. In response to an insight item being selected from the insight panel, additional actions may be performed, including: generating a visualization based on the insight item that is displayed in the display panel instead of the primary visualization; and generating a scratch item that includes a thumbnail view of the primary visualization such that the thumbnail view is displayed in a scratch panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventor: Jun Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11392608Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data. Visualizations that include one or more marks associated with values from a data source may be provided. A mark-of-interest may be determined from the one or more marks. Assessment models may be employed to generate assessment results for the assessment models based on the mark-of-interest and the data from the data source such that each assessment result may be associated with scores that may be based on a best fit to the data from the data source and a value of the mark-of-interest. The assessment results may be rank ordered based on their association with the scores. A report that includes the rank ordered list of the assessment results may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Tableau Software, LLCInventors: Brian William Nenninger, Madeleine Bradley Thompson, Richard Singleton Tibbetts, Alexander Gardner Silverstein