Contextual navigation facets panel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10033714-B2
Application number	US-201514856972-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 17, 2015
Priority date	Jun 16, 2015
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for generating a contextual panel interface with a first interactive display portion for depicting a plurality of selectable datasets associated with the query context, a second interactive display portion for depicting a plurality of selectable measures associated with the query context and with at least one of the plurality of selectable datasets, a third interactive display portion for depicting a plurality of selectable dimensions associated with the query context and with at least one of the plurality of selectable datasets, and an interactive tool display portion configured to determine a query context in response to receiving a search query and to populate the first, second, and third interactive display portions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
initiating, for a user interface, a plurality of processes associated with a plurality of datasets, the user interface including at least a contextual panel interface providing access to data hierarchies pertaining to the plurality of datasets;
determining a first query context associated with the plurality of datasets, the first query context being determined based on data usage patterns associated with a user accessing the user interface;
displaying, in the user interface, the contextual panel interface adjacent to a graphical depiction of data generated using the first query context, the data usage patterns, and the plurality of datasets, the contextual panel interface depicting selectable data compatible with the first query context, and retrieved from the plurality of datasets;
in response to receiving input on at least a portion of the selectable data in the contextual panel interface,
selecting a subset of the plurality of datasets,
determining compatibility between a plurality of attributes in the subset of the plurality of datasets,
generating a second query context for the subset of the plurality of the datasets based on the determined compatibility between the plurality of attributes, and
generating, for display, an updated user interface that includes updated graphical data generated using the second query context, and generating an updated contextual panel interface with updated selectable data corresponding to the second query context, the updated contextual panel interface indicating a merge of at least two datasets in the subset of datasets and including a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions compatible with the second query context,

wherein the second query context modifies the first query context to provide access to additional relevant attributes from the subset of the plurality of datasets and to remove one or more of the plurality of attributes that are incompatible with the input, and
wherein the determining of compatibility between the plurality of attributes includes selecting at least two datasets in the subset that include at least one common attribute from the plurality of attributes, and selecting, using the second query context and the at least one common attribute, a plurality of data measures and a plurality of dimensions in the subset, the plurality of dimensions being sorted based at least in part on usage patterns associated with the user.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of measures include a plurality of data objects that quantitatively define at least one attribute in the plurality of attributes and the plurality of dimensions include a plurality of data categories for the at least one attribute in the plurality of attributes.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sorting the subset of the plurality of datasets determined to be compatible, the sorting based at least in part on the usage patterns associated with the user;
sorting the plurality of measures, the sorting based at least in part on the usage patterns associated with the user; and
displaying, in the updated user interface, the sorted plurality of datasets having attributes determined to be compatible, the plurality of measures, and the plurality of dimensions.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the usage patterns include a measured time-based statistic, associated with the user, and corresponding to accessing one or more attributes within the subset of the datasets, the plurality of measures, or the plurality of dimensions.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first query context is generated by automatically analyzing the plurality of datasets by accessing a knowledge graph to calculate compatibility between the plurality of datasets.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating a second query context associated with the plurality of attributes comprises automatically accessing a knowledge graph to select additional content from the subset of the datasets, the additional content determined to be compatible with the subset of the datasets, the compatibility being based at least in part on predefined similarity of nodes and edges in the knowledge graph.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
blending at least two of the subset of the datasets based at least in part on determining that one or more of the plurality of measures or the plurality of dimensions overlap between the one or more of the plurality of datasets; and
displaying in the updated contextual panel interface, a selectable control corresponding to the blended datasets.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to receiving additional input at one of the interactive controls, using the additional input to filter out datasets, measures, and dimensions that are incompatible with the query context for data associated with the additional input;
generating, for display, an additional updated user interface that includes a third query context and an additional updated contextual panel interface that includes interactive controls corresponding to the additional input; and
displaying, the additional updated user interface and the additional updated contextual panel interface.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
removing one or more datasets from the subset of the datasets based on determining insufficient security credentials for the user of the user interface, wherein the removal terminates access, for the user of the user interface, to the one or more datasets in the subset of the datasets.

10. A computer-implemented system including instructions recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
initiate, for a user interface, a plurality of processes associated with a plurality of datasets, the user interface including at least a contextual panel interface providing access to data hierarchies pertaining to the plurality of datasets;
determine a first query context associated with the plurality of datasets, the first query context being determined based on data usage patterns associated with a user accessing the user interface;
display, in the user interface, the contextual panel interface adjacent to a graphical depiction of data generated using the first query context, the data usage patterns, and the plurality of datasets, the contextual panel interface depicting selectable data compatible with the first query context, and retrieved from the plurality of datasets;
in response to receiving input on at least a portion of the selectable data in the contextual panel interface,
select a subset of the plurality of datasets,
determine compatibility between a plurality of attributes in the subset of the plurality of datasets,
generate a second query context for the subset of the plurality of the datasets based on the determined compatibility between the plurality of, and
generate, for display, an updated user interface that includes updated graphical data generated using the second query context, and generating an updated contextual panel interface with updated selectable data corresponding to the second query context, the updated contextual panel interface and including a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions compatible with the second query context,

wherein the second query context modifies the first query context to provide access to additional relevant attributes from the subset of the plurality of datasets and to remove one or more of the plurality of attributes that are incompatible with the input, and
wherein the determining of compatibility between the

Assignees

• Business Objects Software Ltd
• Business Objects Software Ltd

Inventors

• Naibo Alexis

Classifications

• G06F40/284

  Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates · CPC title

• G06F16/334

  Query execution (filtering based on additional data G06F16/335) · CPC title

• G06F16/245

  Query processing · CPC title

• G06F16/24575

  using context · CPC title

• G06F16/2465

  Query processing support for facilitating data mining operations in structured databases · CPC title