Business solution user interface enabling interaction with reports

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9436349-B2
Application number	US-201313796805-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2013
Priority date	Mar 12, 2013
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for providing an interactive user interface for enabling users to interact with reports and other documents associated with an entity on various client devices and to effectively manage business activities from their client device. The business application user interface may enable a user to access work documents on a client device over a network, and to interact with the documents on the client device. The user interface may display reduced thumbnail versions of available reports, select and view them based on one or more roles. The user interface may adapt how a report is displayed in a full size based on the type of device on which the user views the report.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method to be executed in a computing device for providing a business solution user interface that enables interaction with reports, the method comprising:
identifying attributes of a user, wherein the attributes include two or more of a type of a network used by the user to connect to the business solution, sign-on credentials of the user for a related communication application, and a sign-on process;
determining one or more roles of the user based on the identified attributes;
displaying the one or more roles in a tile format;
upon receiving a selection of the one or more roles, displaying available report representations associated with the selected one or more roles;
upon receiving a selection of one or more of the available report representations, displaying one or more available reports in a full view on the user interface; and
enabling an interaction with the user interface through at least one of a touch input and a gesture input to one or more of: view the displayed one or more available reports, modify the displayed one or more available reports, add one or more new reports, and view additional reports associated with access privileges of the user.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the one or more roles additionally based on one or more of: a user permission associated with using the business solution, a network connection of the user, and operating system credentials of the user.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying the one or more roles in a grouped manner on the user interface based on departments within an organization.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more roles include roles for individuals and roles for departments.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the available report representations further includes:
displaying thumbnail views of the one or more available reports.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying the available report representations in a preview menu on the user interface,
wherein the available report representations are displayed as a horizontally scrollable set of tiles below a main view, and
wherein a selected report of the one or more available reports is displayed in the main view while the preview menu is preserved below the main view and the one or more available reports are organized into groups.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
displaying a navigation bar and a location identifier on the navigation bar to move the available reports on the preview menu.

8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
adjusting an orientation and a size of a selected report of the one or more available reports on the main view to match a size and an orientation of the computing device.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying the one or more roles in a grouped manner based on organizations to which the user has access permission.

Assignees

• Microsoft Corp
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Ranz Jennifer
• Meier Brian
• Wagner Robert
• Bernhardt Robert
• Nannenga John
• Mikheev Yury

Classifications

• G06F3/0482 Primary

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