Bar Graph Patents (Class 345/440.2)
  • Patent number: 12213454
    Abstract: The systems and methods of flexible and customizable wellness program plan for pets through a distribution network connecting pet-owners, manufacturers, clinics and veterinarians, comprising: customizing a wellness plan to include one or more of the following parameters: frequency of services including exams or bloodwork, frequency of products used including vaccinations or preventatives and frequency of payments; customizing payment frequency for veterinarians for services rendered; tracking commissions to manufacturers for products used; tracking profitability for clinics implementing the wellness program; tracking wellness program plan usage by a pet; tracking enrollment and expiry status of a wellness program plan for a pet; dynamically reporting to one or more of the following: manufacturer, clinic, veterinarian or pet-owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Phillip G. Shackelford, Nick Meurrier
  • Patent number: 12184543
    Abstract: Presented herein is an “In-situ OAM” (IOAM) mechanism that uses a Segment Routing-Multiprotocol Label Switching (SR-MPLS) IOAM segment identifier that can selectively collect IOAM data from “target” network nodes along a data packet path. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first network node in the SR-MPLS network, a data packet that includes an MPLS label stack comprising a plurality of segment identifiers (SIDs) associated with a plurality of network nodes. The MPLS label stack includes a first SID associated with the first network node. The method includes determining whether the first SID is an IOAM SID or a regular SID. Upon determining that the first SID is the IOAM SID, the method includes implementing an IOAM function at the first network node. Upon determining that the first SID is the regular SID, the method includes processing the data packet without implementing an IOAM function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rakesh Gandhi, Sagar Soni, Patrick Khordoc
  • Patent number: 12041871
    Abstract: A system and method (1200) for monitoring operating performance of a seeder. A sensor is disposed in each distribution line (58) of the seeder to detect gaps in the product stream. If the duration of the gap exceeds a gap threshold, the gap is recorded. In one embodiment, GPS coordinates are associated with each recorded gap which is then displayed on a field map such that the operator has a real-time a visual representation of each recorded gap within the field as the seeder advances through the field. In another embodiment, a gap rate (1311) is calculated and displayed by determining the number of occurrences of the recorded gaps over a distance or area. In another embodiment, an economic loss value is calculated and displayed based on different ranges of the calculated gap rate (1311).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventor: Chad Plattner
  • Patent number: 11989397
    Abstract: A method of updating a display of a symbol representative of changes in price during a time period, the method includes generating and displaying a first symbol comprising an intra-body fill area for each intra-time period of a first plurality of equal intra-time periods in the time period, receiving an input event, and in response to the received input event, generating and displaying a second symbol in place of the first symbol, the second symbol comprising an intra-body fill area for each intra-time period of a second plurality of equal intra-time periods in the time period wherein a number of the second plurality of equal intra-time periods is different from a number of the first plurality of equal intra-time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Eric Schneider
  • Patent number: 11861133
    Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to apparatuses and methods for providing data communications, and for monitoring and/or analyzing operations of computing data-communication servers. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes processing circuitry to generate graphical-user data and further includes cloud-based data-communication servers. The cloud-based data-communication servers are to provide over one or more broadband networks including the Internet, data-communication services to recipients having respective accounts associated with use of the data-communication services and, for one or more of the accounts, to allow the recipients to permit the recipients to designate, for provisioning and/or deploying, certain of the one or more resources which are available from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Britt, Bryan Martin, Christopher Peters
  • Patent number: 11790579
    Abstract: A production efficiency improvement support system calculates a cycle time erc. based on results of detecting an operating status of production equipment, and displays a chart showing a time series variation of the cycle time etc. The cycle time is displayed such that a variation of the cycle time is visually recognizable. The chart displays information regarding a production volume that is the most important variable in production management on a first row and a second row from the top, and displays information regarding the operating status of the production equipment related to the production volume on bottom two rows (a fourth row and a fifth row). The chart also displays the operating status of the production equipment between these pieces of information. Displaying these indexes in the form of a chart facilitates visual recognition of how to improve the cycle time and effectively supports improvement of the production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: iSmart Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 11715404
    Abstract: In an example display system, a range of colors around a region may be identified and compared to a color of the region with respect to a perception threshold. In that example, a modification of the color within the region may be determined based on the range of colors around the region and a display may be caused to present the region in a modified color based on the range of colors around the region with respect to the perception threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Syed S. Azam, Alexander Williams, David Nypaver, Gregory Staten
  • Patent number: 11673468
    Abstract: A method for displaying a pointer in an instrument panel is described. The method comprises retrieving a current instrument status of an instrument of the instrument panel that is to be displayed, determining a pointer form on the basis of the current instrument status, retrieving of the determined pointer form from a texture atlas, and rendering the pointer in the instrument panel with the retrieved pointer form. There is further described a device for displaying an instrument panel, which device comprises a display module configured to display at least one instrument panel having at least one pointer instrument, and a controller configured to carry out the method using the display module. A vehicle having such a device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: E.SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Köhler, Horst Hadler, Matthias Stock, Ari Romano Pfefferkorn
  • Patent number: 11657550
    Abstract: A method for generating an electronic report, an electronic device and a storage medium, related to the field of large data and the field of artificial intelligence, are disclosed. The method for generating an electronic report includes: establishing a template tree comprising a plurality of branches, wherein the branches comprise at least one intermediate node and bottom layer nodes comprising identification information; and calling, for respective branches, data groups corresponding to the identification information of the bottom layer nodes from a database, respectively, and displaying the called data groups at positions corresponding to the bottom layer nodes in an electronic report. Labor consumption may be reduced, and advantages of low cost, high efficiency, automation and routinization may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanyan Li, Airong Jiang, Dejing Dou
  • Patent number: 11574192
    Abstract: A method of generating a controller for a continuous process. The method includes receiving from a storage memory, off-line stored values of one or more controlled variables and one or more manipulated variables of the continuous process over a plurality of time points. The off-line stored values are used to train a first neural network to operate as a predictor of the controlled variables. Then, the method includes training a second neural network to operate as a controller of the continuous process using the first neural network after it was trained to operate as the predictor for the continuous process and employing the second neural network as a controller of the continuous process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: IMUBIT ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventors: Nadav Cohen, Gilad Cohen
  • Patent number: 11544227
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a visual collaboration software including multiple digital canvas and multiple tools enabling collaboration among multiple users by enabling creation and sharing of visual information including text and drawings. The visual collaboration software obtains from a second software, e.g., a project management software, a file or a portion of the file, and displays the file or the portion in one of the multiple digital canvases. In one embodiment, the visual collaboration software can enable the user to interact with the file obtained from the second software and can pass the modifications to the file to the second software. In another embodiment, the visual collaboration software can only display the file or the portion of the file in one of the multiple digital canvases, and an interaction between the user and the file has to be passed to the second software to compute to the effect of the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Shelby Seward
  • Patent number: 11526268
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and media allow for graphical display of multivariate data in parallel coordinate plots and similar plots for visualizing data for a plurality of variables simultaneously. These systems, methods, and media can aggregate individual data points into curves between axes, significantly improving functioning of computer systems by decreasing the rendering time for such plots. Certain implementations can allow a user to examine the relationship between two or more variables, by displaying the data on non-parallel or other transformed axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Slawinski, Andreas Sjoberg
  • Patent number: 11369748
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drug injection device (100) comprising a first element (140) and a second element (103) configured to undergo unidirectional movement relative to each other corresponding to an action performed on or by the drug injection device (100), wherein the first element (140) comprises a plurality of serially disposed protrusions (143), wherein the second element (103) comprises first and second deflectable transducers (103a/153a, 103b/153b) configured for sequentially cooperating with the plurality of protrusions (143), and wherein a processor (151) is electrically connected with the first and second deflectable transducers (103a/153a, 103b/153b) to register activation signals, wherein the protrusion configuration is so disposed on the first element (140) and the first and second deflectable transducers (103a/153a, 103b/153b) are so disposed on the second element (103) that a second activation signal generated by the second deflectable transducer (103b/153b) is delayed relative to a f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventor: Mikkel Schouenborg Grubbe
  • Patent number: 11164198
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying market share and sales potential are provided. Data is retrieved from databases with sales revenue potential and forecasted sales revenue of a company. Retrieved data is categorized to reflect user input indicating a type of market share analysis to be performed. The categorized data is provided at a graphical representation comprising a bar for each category. A first portion of the bar reflects a total value of the potential sales revenue and a second portion of the bar reflects the forecasted sales revenue such that relative market share may be quickly assessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ASK CHEMICALS LLC
    Inventor: Charles Conley Hoertz
  • Patent number: 11146461
    Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for monitoring and/or analysis of computing servers. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a processing circuit having an analysis circuit configured to retrieve operating state data for a plurality of servers. The analysis circuit determines an operating state of each of the servers for a plurality of time periods. The determined operating state is one of an up state, a warning state, and a down state. The processing circuit also includes an interface circuit configured to provide a graphical user interface (GUI). For each of the servers, the GUI displays a timeline having a respective time block for each of the plurality of time periods. Each time block has a graphical indication of one of the three states of operation corresponding to the operating state of the server at the corresponding time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Britt, Bryan Martin, Christopher Peters
  • Patent number: 11068647
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product for measuring transitions between visualizations, the method comprising identifying data fields represented in a first visualization and one or more presentation characteristics for the data fields represented in the first visualization, identifying data fields represented in a second visualization and one or more presentation characteristics for the data fields represented in the second visualization, determining a plurality of transition scores, wherein each transition score represents a difference or similarity between the first and second visualizations, relative to either the identified data fields or the presentation characteristics, and generating a composite measure of transition between the first and second visualizations from the plurality of transition scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A. Keahey, Daniel J. Rope, Graham J. Wills
  • Patent number: 11068981
    Abstract: An application is disclosed that receives from a host exchange a plurality of trade notifications, each trade notification corresponding to an executed trade, and for each executed trade of interest, may determine whether the executed trade belongs in an aggregated set with one or more other executed trades. The application provides an indicator for indicating whether the corresponding executed trade or aggregated trade traded on the bid side or on the offer side of the market, and which indicates whether additional volume is available at the associated trade price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lane, Michael Unetich
  • Patent number: 10937212
    Abstract: A system includes a parameter acquisition unit that receives one or more physiological parameters from one or more sensors. A memory device stores historical values of the one or more physiological parameters received by the parameter acquisition unit. A user interface unit displays representations of current and historical values of the one or more physiological parameters in a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the GUI includes a semicircular gauge having a curved portion representing a common range of values for the one or more physiological parameters and a radial axis representing time, a center of the semicircular gauge corresponding to an earliest time for which a historical value is represented within the semicircular gauge and the curved portion corresponding to a current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cadathur Rajagopalan, Scott Eaton
  • Patent number: 10922753
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for configurable display of market data. In one embodiment, market data is displayed in a dimensional perspective that emphasizes important aspects of market data while deemphasizing less important aspects. In a graphical user interface (GUI), the displayed market data is presented along a first axis, and a portion of the displayed market data is centered relative to a second axis. In response to receiving a selection of one of multiple controls of the GUI, the displayed market data is configured according to a dimensional perspective associated with the selected control. In some embodiments, the dimensional perspective includes mapping display of the market data to an object, such as an angled surface, a circular object, a flat surface, or a combination of the above. In some embodiments, additional controls of the GUI enable zoomed and rotated perspectives of the displayed market data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Geneva Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Creamer, Edward Paul Krauss, Geoffrey R. Myers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10885883
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A gaze detection system may gather information on a user's point of gaze on the display. Based on the point-of-gaze information, control circuitry in the electronic device may produce image data for an image with areas of different resolutions. A full-resolution portion of the image may overlap the point of gaze. Lower resolution portions of the image may surround the full-resolution portion. The display may have a pixel array. The pixel array may include rows and columns of pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data to the columns of pixels in accordance with row selection signals supplied to the rows of pixels. Display driver circuitry may be used to display the image using the pixel array. The display driver circuitry may have row selection circuitry and column expander circuitry that are responsive to a resolution mode selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 10810703
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section configured to display images, and a controller configured to control the display section to display an indicator-needle motion-blurred image from an entire indicator-needle motion-blurred image that is an image previously stored in a storage unit and represents an afterimage corresponding to an entire rotation range within which an indicator needle is capable of rotating, the indicator-needle motion-blurred image representing an afterimage of the indicator needle that corresponds to a rotation range within which the indicator needle rotates per unit time when rotated. Consequently, the display device is effective at enabling the indicator needle to be appropriately displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maeda, Masakatsu Suyama, Takayuki Ono, Kaori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10803522
    Abstract: A system that produces a predictive chart for a selected stock that is useful in determining if the price of a particular stock is likely to increase or decrease. Open interest data is obtained for the selected stock from an options exchange. Likewise, the option volume data for stock options in the selected stock is also obtained. A computing device calculates implied volatility for the stock options of the selected stock. Options volatility indicator data is then calculated as a function of the open interest data, the volume data, and the implied volatility. The options volatility indicator data is normalized. The normalized data is plotted against selected trading periods to produce an options volatility indicator graph. The options volatility indicator graph is then shown on a display that is controlled by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Montal Research Ltd
    Inventor: Guy Cohen
  • Patent number: 10756948
    Abstract: A leader host obtains individual distributions of data sets ingested by individual hosts of a fleet of hosts over a domain. The leader host compiles the individual distributions over the domain to generate a compiled distribution. The leader host then partitions the domain based at least in part on the generated compiled distribution. These partitions of the partitioned domain are distributed to individual hosts of the fleet of hosts, which causes the individual hosts to process a portion of the distributed date set according to their respective partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Waugh, Emmanuel Pierre Devillard, Daniel Vassallo, Nitin Kesarwani, Greg Sterin, Hongqi Wang
  • Patent number: 10607290
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing perspective to market data. In one embodiment, market data is displayed in a three-dimensional perspective that emphasizes important aspects of market data while minimizing less important aspects. In some embodiments, market data is mapped to an object that automatically moves to display the inside market. In another embodiment, orders can be entered, manipulated, and/or canceled in conjunction with, or separately from, the object. Single and combination gestures can be used to perform one or more commands for entering orders and viewing market data. In one embodiment, multiple displays from one or more different types of computing devices are used in conjunction with each other for operating and/or displaying a portion of the aspects of the disclosed technology. In another embodiment, a filter component is used to show select market data and to enter or trigger specific types of market orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Geneva Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Creamer, Edward Paul Krauss, Geoffrey R. Myers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10586359
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for creating a waterfall chart for data analysis. A waterfall chart enables a user to compare two different versions of a quantity and the underlying details for the differences between the two versions. The method comprises: 1) a data setting step including the setting of: a) an open value, b) a close value, c) a breakdown time and d) a breakdown dimension; 2) a data series definition step including defining: a) a reference data point, b) a comparison data point, c) a reference data breakdown series and d) a comparison data breakdown series; 3) a variance series computation step including: a) aligning the reference data breakdown series and the comparison data breakdown series, b) calculating a variance series, and c) creating a waterfall data series; and 4) a chart rendering step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Workday, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Long, Tim Berston, Kane Fasham, Mythili Gopalakrishnan, Thomas Peff
  • Patent number: 10225373
    Abstract: Within the financial-services industry, there are online centers that allow brokers to match sellers with buyers of financial instruments based on indications of interest. To follow up on these indications of interest, users of such centers are now using proprietary instant-messaging (IM) systems, which allow them to instantaneously exchange text messages over the Internet with other users. The present inventor recognized that these communications are often inconvenient because the IM programs are isolated from the financial information. Accordingly, he devised systems, methods, and software that integrate IM and other communications-related functions into financial-data displays. Ultimately, one of more of these or other embodiments promise improved efficiency and convenience of online interactions not only for financial trading partners and others in the financial-services industry, but also for those in any private, public, and commercial domain where rapid or convenient online communication is desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters (GRC) LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy Condie
  • Patent number: 9741076
    Abstract: An application is disclosed that receives from a host exchange a plurality of trade notifications, each trade notification corresponding to an executed trade, and for each executed trade of interest, may determine whether the executed trade belongs in an aggregated set with one or more other executed trades. The application provides an indicator for indicating whether the corresponding executed trade or aggregated trade traded on the bid side or on the offer side of the market, and which indicates whether additional volume is available at the associated trade price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lane, Michael Unetich
  • Patent number: 9600843
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing perspective to market data. In one embodiment, market data is displayed in a three-dimensional perspective that emphasizes important aspects of market data while minimizing less important aspects. In some embodiments, market data is mapped to an object that automatically moves to display the inside market. In another embodiment, orders can be entered, manipulated, and/or canceled in conjunction with, or separately from, the object. Single and combination gestures can be used to perform one or more commands for entering orders and viewing market data. In one embodiment, multiple displays from one or more different types of computing devices are used in conjunction with each other for operating and/or displaying a portion of the aspects of the disclosed technology. In another embodiment, a filter component is used to show select market data and to enter or trigger specific types of market orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: GENEVA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Creamer, Edward Paul Krauss, Geoffrey R. Myers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9582612
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating previews of list data in space constrained user interfaces are disclosed. In the available display area of a particular display device or user interface, a segment of a list of items are displayed. Values in the on-screen and off-screen portions of the list are analyzed and processed to generate previews of the list. One preview includes generating a box plot of the distribution of values in the list. An adaptively sized slider can then be generated relative to the box plot to indicate which part of the distribution is displayed in the list items that fit in the available display area. Another preview includes generating a composite row in the available display area that summarizes the data in one or more of the off-screen portions of the list. Such previews can include the sum or average of the values in the off-screen list items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: John Armitage
  • Patent number: 9542160
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes extracting requirement data from a software development system, the requirement data defining a software development requirement during a predetermined period of time. The method further includes extracting from the software development system an indication of a state of software development at the beginning of the period of time, and an indication of a state of software development at the end of the period of time. The method further includes calculating a change in the state of software development during the period of time and generating a report that enables comparing the calculated change in the state of software development with the software development requirement. A computer readable medium product and a data processing system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Miroslav Novak, Albert Regner, Vladimir Dubsky
  • Patent number: 9215015
    Abstract: A method for selecting a wireless network and a portable electronic device thereof are provided, and the method for selecting the wireless network includes following steps. A plurality of wireless network signal indicators of at least one wireless network are detected. Moreover, a target wireless network is selected from the at least one wireless network for operating therein according to the wireless network signal indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Liang Kuo, Chia-Shin Weng, Shu-Ping Yang, Wei-Ren Lo, Chih-Kuang Lin
  • Patent number: 9159148
    Abstract: A method for patient monitoring includes receiving one or more first patient parameters from at least one medical device. The method further includes transforming the one or more first patient parameters into one or more gauge display parameters. The method further includes generating data operable to display the one or more gauge display parameters individually in a particular portion of a display device. The one or more gauge display parameters include at least a historical range and a current value within the historical range. The method further includes analyzing one or more second patient parameters to adjust the one or more gauge display parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Robert Boyer, John Trenouth, Richard Batch
  • Patent number: 9129419
    Abstract: A method monitors an evolution of a physical quantity. The method includes measuring the evolution of the value of the physical quantity, and displaying in a first graphical zone a bar graph representing the evolution of the value received from the sensor until this value reaches a first threshold, the graphical zone has a first displaying scale. When the monitored value reaches the first threshold, the bar graph is displayed and represents the evolution of the value received from the sensor in a second graphical zone. The second graphical zone is a zoom of a part of the first graphical zone and has at least a second displaying scale. At least one magnified portion of the second graphical zone is further displayed, the magnified portion having at least a third displaying scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Stephane Vanhoecke
  • Patent number: 9041716
    Abstract: A display for showing indicia in the form of a bar graph is provided. The display is configured so that each bar of the bar graph depicts a numerical or other quantitative value of a parameter. Each bar is provided with one or more additional indicia representative of numerical values that are related to the numerical values represented by the bar(s) shown in the bar graph. Each of the one or more additional indicia is positioned to as to be superimposed over the respective bar to which the additional indicia correspond, and depict the relationship(s) between the value represented by the bar and the value represented by the one or more additional indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Charles Callis Ogles, Barrett Joseph Fuhrmann, Jr., Scott Williams, Charles David Whitefield, II
  • Patent number: 9013486
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes at least one physical computing device 1) determining a first strength of communication metric representative of a strength of communications initiated by a first user towards a second user during a time period and a second strength of communication metric representative of a strength of communications initiated by the second user towards the first user during the time period, 2) generating a strength of communication graphic that graphically represents the strength of the communications initiated by the first user towards the second user relative to the strength of the communications initiated by the second user towards first user, and 3) providing the graphic for display by an access device associated with the first user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Shadman Zafar, Brian F. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9007375
    Abstract: A method of automatically analyzing data from at least one data set including a plurality of process factors of interest and a process output of interest to determine the relationship between the factors of interest and the output of interest at a given significance level and preserving model hierarchy. The method includes the steps of calculating the effects of the factors of interest against the process output of interest, developing a model including the significant factors of interest and respective estimated coefficients and omitting the insignificant factors of interest, generating a representation of the model, and generating at least one graphical representation of the factors of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Moresteam.com LLC
    Inventors: William M. Hathaway, Smita Kulkarni Skrivanek
  • Patent number: 8989886
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes defining a sequence of process resources. Each of the process resources is for performing at least one respective task on a work item. The method further includes calculating a resource utilization metric for each of the process resources. The method also includes displaying a representation of at least a portion of the sequence of process resources. The representation includes image elements that each have a dimension that is inversely proportional to the resource utilization metric for the process resource represented by the image element in question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Boris Oliver Kneisel, Miriam Suchet
  • Patent number: 8988427
    Abstract: Provenance techniques are disclosed for managing a history of a meeting. For example, a method for managing a history associated with a meeting comprises the following steps. Data associated with the meeting is collected. Provenance data is generated based on at least a portion of the collected data, wherein the provenance data is indicative of a lineage of one or more data items. A provenance graph is generated that defines a visual representation of the generated provenance data, wherein graph elements comprise one or more nodes and one or more edges between nodes, wherein nodes of the graph represent records associated with the collected data and edges of the graph represent relations between the records. One or more applications are associated with at least one graph element and are selectable to invoke functionality. The generated provenance graph is stored in a repository for use in analyzing the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yurdaer Nezihi Doganata, Mercan Topkara
  • Patent number: 8970599
    Abstract: Data values are exhibited based on sector-ring angles. The data values to be exhibited are first received by a processing device. The sector-ring angles are then determined for the data values to be exhibited. Using the sector-ring angles for the data values to be exhibited, the data values are exhibited in a sector-ring manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Hu, Ke Qiang Chen, Guang Yu Liu, Xing Tian
  • Patent number: 8963923
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a visualization of power for display. The method establishes a power visualization scale based on a color saturation and intensity range for a hue and a range of power to be visualized, and generates a display image for at least one measured value of power as a level of color saturation and intensity for the hue based on the power visualization scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Enphase Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Smith, Jonathon Wolfe, Chris Eich
  • Patent number: 8952966
    Abstract: Various arrangements for manipulating multiple elements of a Gantt chart are presented. The Gantt chart may be generated comprising a plurality of elements distributed across a plurality of groups. A selection of a subset of elements from the plurality of elements may be received, wherein the subset of elements of the Gantt chart comprises elements from at least a first group and a second group of the plurality of groups of the Gantt chart. An application programming interface may be executed to retrieve an element identifier for each element of the subset of elements of the Gantt chart, wherein each element identifier corresponds to only one element of the Gantt chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Imran Mohammad, Hendrik van den Broek, Chadwick Chow, Diar Ahmed
  • Patent number: 8947434
    Abstract: A machine-implemented process for determining, scaling, providing, and presenting comparative information in an accurate, scaled, useful, easily recognized, and understandable manner, including: reading the data sets; setting first and second boundaries of a first reference axis using first coordinates of data points of one data set having maximum and minimum values, respectively; setting first and second boundaries of each of the other reference axes by adjusting either the first coordinate of one data point of the selected data set having a maximum value or the first coordinate of one data point of the selected data set having a minimum value, wherein every E-value calculated based on the thus-obtained final first and second boundaries of the each of the other reference axes is substantially equal to an E-value of the first data set; and plotting the data points of the data sets. An electronic device capable of presenting a multiple-axis graph is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Chii Ying Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Shan Chuang
  • Publication number: 20150029213
    Abstract: A method of visualizing high-cardinally data is provided. A graph is presented on a display. The graph includes a first axis, a second axis, and a plurality of value markers. The first axis includes a minimum value and a maximum value and the second axis includes a plurality of category values. A selection indicator identifying selection of a first value marker of the plurality of value markers is received. The first value marker indicates a value for a category value of the plurality of category values. A second plurality of category values is determined based on the category value. The graph and a second graph are presented on the display. The second graph includes a third axis, a fourth axis, and a second plurality of value markers. The third axis includes a second minimum value and a second maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan Riley Benson, David J. Caira, Douglas R. Dotson, Lisa Hope Everdyke, Nascif A. Abousalh-Neto
  • Publication number: 20150015585
    Abstract: A technique is provided for a graphical user interface on a computer. The technique includes receiving messages individually corresponding to resources being monitored, displaying rows in a table, and generating bar graphs of the messages respectively corresponding to the resources in the rows. Each of the bar graphs displays a color coded scheme to visually distinguish severity of the messages in each of the rows for the resources. The bar graphs display the severity of the messages for one resource per the given row without requiring user intervention to view severities of the messages displayed by the color coded scheme, without requiring user intervention to view a total number of messages for the given row, while maintaining a same row height regardless of the total number of messages for the given row, and without changing a table size including a table height and a table width of the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Rolando Perez, Christopher A. Robbins
  • Patent number: 8928664
    Abstract: A graph creation method includes setting on a plane a coordinate system in which three axis extend from an origin in a radial fashion, setting three evaluation results of three evaluation item for an evaluation object on each the three axis; determining a balance being one of center, circumcenter, incenter, orthocenter, and excenter of a polygon the vertices of which correspond to the three evaluation results set on the three axis; and creating on the coordinate system a graph in which the balance is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiya Hasegawa, Kouji Takahashi, Masamine Abe, Tomoyoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8917272
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for facilitating visualization and analysis of medical data. A method may include accessing a first set of data points. The method may further include plotting a plurality of data points from the first set of data points on a first graph. The method may additionally include causing the first graph to be displayed. The method may also include accessing a second set of data points. The method may further include plotting a plurality of data points from the second set of data points on a second graph. The method may also include causing the second graph to be displayed overlaying the first graph. At least a portion of the second graph may be semi-transparent such that at least a portion of the first graph is viewable concurrently with the second graph. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: McKesson Financial Holdings
    Inventors: Robyn Regan, Matthew Walton
  • Patent number: 8917273
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a display device on a muscle trainer equipped with at least one force sensor for sensing a person's periodic or sustained muscular force, in which display device a currently applied muscular force is depicted in relation to a target muscular force or to a maximum muscular force, and the display device is controlled such that a force queried by the patient is always depicted in a predefined target area of a panel in the display device, a multifunctional performance profile of a trainee is achieved in a clear and rapidly recognized manner in that the target muscular force is depicted by a first panel of predefined area and the currently applied muscular force is depicted by a second, variable panel positioned within the first panel, and the area of said second panel is caused to change according to a specific relationship to the currently applied muscular force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: medica-Medizintechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Otto Hoebel
  • Patent number: 8914740
    Abstract: A user interface is provided for allowing a user to interact with a graphical display, so as to facilitate comparative viewing of components of the display. A bar graph or other quantitative display is provided, wherein each bar is divided into a plurality of segments. Responsive to user input, segments of a given kind, in different bars, are realigned with one another along a common baseline, so that their sizes can be more easily compared with one another. In at least one embodiment, the realignment is transitory, and the original graph is restored upon further user input and/or after some predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Domo, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Joos, Mark Schultz, Matt McMurry, Chris Willis
  • Publication number: 20140340407
    Abstract: A technique is provided for a graphical user interface on a computer. The technique includes receiving messages individually corresponding to resources being monitored, displaying rows in a table, and generating bar graphs of the messages respectively corresponding to the resources in the rows. Each of the bar graphs displays a color coded scheme to visually distinguish severity of the messages in each of the rows for the resources. The bar graphs display the severity of the messages for one resource per the given row without requiring user intervention to view severities of the messages displayed by the color coded scheme, without requiring user intervention to view a total number of messages for the given row, while maintaining a same row height regardless of the total number of messages for the given row, and without changing a table size including a table height and a table width of the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rolando Perez, Christopher A. Robbins
  • Patent number: 8878873
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus to decorate visible attributes of a rendered avatar. A server may collect a first user profile of a first avatar, the first user profile having at least one interest of a user. Next, the server may receive a location of the first avatar, wherein the location is associated with a view to at least a second avatar. The server can identify the second avatar among a group of avatars visible with respect to the first avatar. Further, the server may read a target profile of the second avatar then determine whether the second user profile satisfies a criterion based on the first user profile and the target profile. In addition, the server may render a modified rendered avatar to a client, responsive to the determination that the target profile satisfies the criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dwip N. Banerjee, Aditya Mohan, Sandeep R. Patil, Dhaval K. Shah