Data aggregation and analysis system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016306806-A1
Application number	US-201514874303-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 2, 2015
Priority date	Oct 3, 2014
Publication date	Oct 20, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An interactive user interface for displaying projects comprising a collection of links specifying data to be displayed from a plurality of different applications and/or data sources. When loading a project for display, links are automatically parsed to identify the application and/or data source they are associated with. Retrieved data associated with the links is displayed in a format based upon that of their native application. The data may be displayed in an interactive format, allowing the user to change or manipulate the data in a manner that would be possible in the data's native application. A project may be expressed as a “project link,” comprising a text string, wherein the links of the assets associated with the project are included or embedded within the text string, and which may be shared between different users, and may function as a snapshot of the project.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computing system configured to access and display data from a plurality of different applications or data sources, the computing system comprising:
a computer processor; a database storing one or more projects and one or more plug-ins, wherein each of the one or more projects includes a respective one or more links, wherein at least some of links encode data indicative of at least:
a corresponding external application or data source,
data of the corresponding external application or data source to be accessed, and
a format in which the data to be accessed from the corresponding external application or data source is to be displayed; and
a computer readable storage medium storing program instructions configured for execution by the computer processor in order to cause the computing system to:
access, from the database, a first project of the one or more projects;
identify a first link included in the first project;
analyze the first link to determine a first corresponding external application or data source indicated by the link;
determine whether the first corresponding application or data source is associated with a plug-in of the one or more plug-ins; and
in response to determining that the first corresponding application or data source is associated with a first plug-in of the one or more plug-ins:
based on the first plug-in, access the corresponding application or data source;
retrieve data from the corresponding application or data source as indicated by the first link; and
display the retrieved data in a format indicated by the first link such that the displayed data is interactively accessible to a user as if the displayed data were displayed natively by the corresponding application or data source.

2 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first plug-in corresponds to an application for creating one or more graphs from a plurality of stored data points.

3 . The computing system of claim 2 , wherein the first link specifies one or more graphs created using stored data points.

4 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein accessing the corresponding application or data source comprises submitting an authentication token to the application or data source, and wherein the authentication token allows first the plug-in to retrieve a first portion of the data but not a second portion of the data from the corresponding application or data source.

5 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first plug-in corresponds to an application for providing a hierarchy of objects associated with one or more data entities.

6 . The computing system of claim 5 , wherein the first link corresponds to a particular object associated with a data entity of the one or more data entities, and wherein the retrieved data is displayed as a representation of the object and a breadcrumb trail indicating a position of the object within the hierarchy.

7 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions are further configured to causing the computing system to, in response to a determination that a plug-in associated with the corresponding external application or data source does not exist, display the link as text.

8 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the first link comprises a URL.

9 . The computing system of claim 8 , wherein the URL corresponds to an image, and wherein the program instructions cause the computing system to display the image specified by the URL.

10 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein a project of the one or more projects may be further associated with one or more pieces of text entered by a user or one or more uploaded files.

11 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to:
receive a first indication from the user of a modification to be made to at least a portion of the displayed data associated with the first link; perform the modification on the displayed data in response to the received indication; and generate a first updated link based at least in part upon the modification to the displayed data.

12 . The computing system of claim 11 , wherein the program instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to:
in response to receiving a second indication from a second user of a second modification to be made to at least a portion of the displayed data associated with the first link, preventing a second updated link based at least in part upon the second modification from being generated, if the second indication is received between the receipt of the first indication and the generation of the first updated link.

13 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein a project of the one or more projects is associated with a project link, wherein the one or more links included in the project are encoded within the text of the project link.

Assignees

• Palantir Technologies Inc

Inventors

• Fackler Steven
• Skiff David

Classifications

• G06T11/26 Primary

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F16/2477

  Temporal data queries · CPC title

• G06F16/252 Primary

  between a Database Management System and a front-end application · CPC title

• G06F16/9024

  Graphs; Linked lists (G06F16/9027 takes precedence) · CPC title