Smart query plan with visual optimizations to improve responsiveness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9229981-B2
Application number	US-201313964209-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 12, 2013
Priority date	Aug 12, 2013
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

Methods and systems may provide for identifying one or more visualization characteristics of a user interface (UI) associated with an application on a client device and generating a query plan based on the one or more visualization characteristics, a historical performance of a network infrastructure and a current status of the network infrastructure. In addition, a response to a query from the application may be generated in accordance with the query plan. In one example, generating the query plan includes selecting a number of elements in a responsive data set and/or selecting one or more of a plurality of service endpoints in the network infrastructure to handle the query based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics.

First claim

We claim:

1. A computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium; and
computer usable code stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to:
identify one or more visualization characteristics of a user interface (UI) associated with an application on a client device, wherein the one or more visualization characteristics are to include a number of elements in a data view of the UI;
receive a query from the application;
generate a query plan based on the one or more visualization characteristics, a historical performance of a network infrastructure and a current status of the network infrastructure, wherein the historical performance is to include one or more of a response time of one or more individual service endpoints in the network infrastructure, a composite response time, a network latency, a functional profile of two or more similar service endpoints, and a re-query attempt history;
select a number of elements in a responsive data set for the query plan based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics, wherein the number of elements in the responsive data set is to be less than a full result size;
select one or more of a plurality of service endpoints in the network infrastructure for the query plan based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics; and
generate a response to the query in accordance with the query plan.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the computer usable code, if executed, causes a computer to identify one or more of a spinner control parameter, a scrollable list parameter, a scrollable table parameter, a scrollable graph parameter and a scrollable map parameter of the UI as a visualization characteristic.

3. The computer program product of claim 2 , wherein the spinner control parameter is to include a scroll parameter.

4. The computer program product of claim 2 , wherein the spinner control parameter is to include a cache parameter.

5. The computer program product of claim 4 , wherein the cache parameter is to identify a number of screens to be cached on the client device.

6. A computer implemented method, comprising:
identifying one or more visualization characteristics of a user interface (UI) associated with an application on a client device, wherein the one or more visualization characteristics include a number of elements in a data view of the UI;
receiving a query from the application;
generating a query plan based on the one or more visualization characteristics, a historical performance of a network infrastructure and a current status of the network infrastructure, wherein the historical performance includes one or more of a response time of one or more individual service endpoints in the network infrastructure, a composite response time, a network latency, a functional profile of two or more similar service endpoints, and a re-query attempt history;
selecting a number of elements in a responsive data set for the query plan based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics, wherein the number of elements in the responsive data set is less than a full result size;
selecting one or more of a plurality of service endpoints in the network infrastructure for the query plan based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics; and
generating a response to the query in accordance with the query plan.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein identifying the one or more visualization characteristics includes identifying one or more of a spinner control parameter, a scrollable list parameter, a scrollable table parameter, a scrollable graph parameter and a scrollable map parameter of the UI.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the spinner control parameter includes a scroll parameter.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the spinner control parameter includes a cache parameter.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the cache parameter identifies a number of screens to be cached on the client device.

11. A computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium; and
computer usable code stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium, where, if executed by a processor, the computer usable code causes a computer to:
identify one or more visualization characteristics of a user interface (UI) associated with an application on a client device;
generate a query plan based on the one or more visualization characteristics, a historical performance of a network infrastructure and a current status of the network infrastructure; and
generate a response to a query from the application in accordance with the query plan.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer usable code, if executed, causes a computer to select one or more of a plurality of service endpoints in the network infrastructure for the query plan based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics.

13. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer usable code, if executed, causes a computer to select a number of elements in a responsive data set for the query plan based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the number of elements in the responsive data set is to be less than a full result size.

15. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer usable code, if executed, causes a computer to identify a number of elements in a data view of the UI as a visualization characteristic.

16. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer usable code, if executed, causes a computer to identify one or more of a spinner control parameter, a scrollable list parameter, a scrollable table parameter, a scrollable graph parameter and a scrollable map parameter of the UI as a visualization characteristic.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the spinner control parameter is to include a scroll parameter.

18. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the spinner control parameter is to include a cache parameter.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the cache parameter is to identify a number of screens to be cached on the client device.

20. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the historical performance is to include one or more of a response time of one or more individual service endpoints, a composite response time, a network latency, a functional profile of one or more similar service endpoints, and a re-query attempt history.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Eblighatian Aram B
• Joshi Niraj P
• Srinivasan Lakshminarayanan

Classifications

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G06F17/30463 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/048

  Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• G06F16/24542 Primary

  Plan optimisation · CPC title