Systems and methods for rendering a visualization using event data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10810771-B2
Application number	US-201816034143-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2018
Priority date	Apr 27, 2015
Publication date	Oct 20, 2020
Grant date	Oct 20, 2020

Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure are systems and methods for providing third party visualizations. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving, via an API, computer-executable instructions configured to render a visualization using events and a variable field; rendering the visualization using the events; causing displaying of a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a visualization panel and a variable element; receiving, via the variable element of the GUI, an indication of a first change in the value of the variable field to a first value; re-rendering the visualization using the events and the first value; and causing display of the GUI with an updated visualization panel and the variable element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving input data from a data source;
receiving a modular visualization, the modular visualization comprising a variable field associated with a visualization and instructions for rendering the visualization using the input data and the variable field, wherein the visualization is graphically rendered using the input data and values associated with the variable field, wherein the input data comprises events and wherein the events comprise time-stamped machine-generated data, wherein the variable field is presented to a user via a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the variable field comprises a value operable to be changed by a user through the (GUI);
causing display of a variable field graphical element corresponding to the variable field within the graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the value of the variable field is operable to be changed by the user using the variable field graphical element associated with the variable field, and wherein changing the value of the variable field using the variable field graphical element initiates a re-rendering of the visualization using the input data and the value of the variable field;
responsive to a user interacting with the variable field graphical element, accepting a user input that defines a value for the variable field; and
rendering the visualization based on the modular visualization and the value of the variable field to produce a rendered visualization.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering of the visualization is further based on the events.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying on a display screen the rendered visualization.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the GUI comprises the visualization.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GUI comprises the visualization, wherein the GUI is an interactive GUI, and wherein the GUI is operable to display visualizations native to an application program and visualizations received from third parties.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
responsive to a user interacting with the variable field graphical element, accepting another user input that defines another value of the variable field;
re-rendering the visualization based on the modular visualization and the another value of the variable field to produce a re-rendered visualization; and
displaying on a display screen the re-rendered visualization.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
responsive to a user interacting with the variable field graphical element, accepting another user input that defines another value of the variable field;
re-rendering the visualization based on the modular visualization and the another value of the variable field to produce a re-rendered visualization; and
displaying on a display screen the re-rendered visualization, wherein the re-rendering is further based on the events.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the receiving comprises receiving a plurality of modular visualizations with an associated plurality of variable fields, each variable field associated with a respective modular visualization of the plurality of modular visualizations and further comprising:
receiving a plurality of labels, each label associated with a respective modular visualization of the plurality of modular visualizations; and
registering, in a registry, each label and associated modular visualization of the plurality of labels and the plurality of modular visualizations.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the receiving comprises receiving a plurality of modular visualizations with an associated plurality of variable fields, each variable field associated with a respective modular visualization of the plurality of modular visualizations and further comprising:
receiving a plurality of labels, each label associated with a respective modular visualization of the plurality of modular visualizations; and
registering, in a registry, each label and associated modular visualization of the plurality of labels and the plurality of modular visualizations;
displaying, within the GUI, a label selection graphical element;
receiving a user selection of a particular modular visualization based on a user interaction with the label selection graphical element selecting a particular label associated with the particular modular visualization; and
wherein the rendering the visualization comprises rendering, within the GUI, a visualization corresponding to the particular modular visualization responsive to the user interaction with the label selection graphical element selecting the particular label.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GUI further comprises a menu panel comprising a menu element corresponding to the visualization, and further comprising:
receiving user input, via the menu panel of the GUI, an indication of a selection of the menu element.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GUI further comprises a menu panel comprising a menu element corresponding to the visualization, and further comprising:
receiving user input, via the menu panel of the GUI, an indication of a selection of the menu element, wherein the menu panel corresponds to a native visualization.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GUI further comprises a menu panel comprising a menu element corresponding to the visualization, and further comprising:
receiving user input, via the menu panel of the GUI, an indication of a selection of the menu element, wherein the menu panel corresponds to a visualization received from a third party.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rendering the visualization comprises:
receiving the events from a plurality of searches; and
rendering the visualization using the events from the plurality of searches.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
registering the modular visualization within a registry as part of a framework for visualizations of events.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving visualization editor options for the modular visualization; and
storing the instructions, the variable field, and the visualization editor options in computer readable memory.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transferring the instructions and the variable field to a specified device.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions for rendering the visualization are in a syntax substantially compatible with JavaScript.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, via the variable field graphical element, an indication of a change in the value of the variable field to a second value;
rendering a second visualization using the modular visualization and the second value; and
causing display of the GUI using the second visualization and the variable element.

19. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the events from one or more indexers.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the variable field graphical element is one of a slider, a checkbox, a text field, a drop down menu, a dial element, a spinner, or a combination box.

21. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a second variable field, wherein a change in a value of the second variable field results in the change in the visualization; and
wherein the GUI further comprises a second variable field graphical element corresponding to the second variable field.

22. The method of claim 1 wherein the events are obtained using a predefined search criteria

Assignees

• Splunk Inc

Inventors

• Filippi Nicholas
• Fishel Simon
• Puchbauer-Schnabel Siegfried
• Elting Mathew
• Yestrau Carl

Classifications

• G06T11/26 Primary

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• G06T2200/24

  involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs] · CPC title

• G06F16/9038

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06T11/206 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic