Permitted assignment user interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9684882-B2
Application number	US-201514984186-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2015
Priority date	Dec 31, 2014
Publication date	Jun 20, 2017
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017

Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for displaying a visual task board comprising a permitted assignment user interface are disclosed. Displaying a permitted assignment user interface may comprise generating a first card representing a first record, wherein the first record comprises an information element that has a first value of a visualization metric, generating an output for display, the output comprising a first lane representing the first value of the visualization metric and comprising the first card, and, in response to operator input indicating a primary context and on a condition that an association between the primary context and the first record is prohibited, updating the output by generating an updated first card representing the first record and indicating that the association between the first record and the primary context is prohibited, and generating an updated output for display omitting the first card and comprising the updated first card.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for overlaying an indicator in a window region of a graphical user interface representing groupings of related records, comprising:
a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, the instructions comprising:
an information set identifier module that identifies a visual task board information set structured in the memory that comprises a plurality of records, wherein each record comprises at least one information element from a plurality of information elements from the visual task board information set;
an information element identifier module that identifies an information element of the plurality of records as a visualization metric for output on a display of the graphical user interface;
a lane generator module that generates a plurality of lane display regions of a graphical user interface window structured as lanes based on the visualization metric, wherein each lane from the plurality of lanes is associated with a respective value of the visualization metric;
a card generator module that generates a card display region of the graphical user interface windows, structured as a first card representing a first record from the plurality of records, wherein the first record comprises an information element that has a first value of the visualization metric;
an output generation module that generates an output for display in the graphical user interface window, the output comprising
a first lane display region from the plurality of lane display regions, the first lane display region representing the first value of the visualization metric and comprising:
an indication of the first value of the visualization metric,
a first card display region that overlaps the first lane display region for display of the first card, wherein the first card is sized based on a size of the first lane display region and containing a subset of the information elements, wherein each of the subset of information elements includes a display rank indicating a priority for including an associated information element in the first card and wherein the subset of information elements is selected by identifying at least one information element using a respective display rank and by determining whether space is available in the first card to include the at least one information element using—the size of the first card,
a system card that overlaps the first lane display region, the system card not being representative of any of the plurality of records and being representative of the lane, and
an activity stream that displays a history of changes for the first card; and

an output module that transmits via a graphical user interface output interface or stores in the memory the output;

wherein:
the output generation module, in response to operator input provided to a communication input of the processor indicating a primary context and on a condition that an association between the primary context and the first record is prohibited, is configured to update the output utilizing:
the card generation module to generate an updated first card display region representing the first record, the updated first card display region comprising an indicator overlay that indicates the association in the memory between the first record and the primary context is prohibited;
the lane generator module to generate an updated output for display that comprises an updated first lane display region representing the first value of the visualization metric, the updated first lane display region replacing the first card display region with the updated first card display region; and
the output module to transmit via the graphical user interface output interface or stores in the memory the updated output.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise:
an avatar output generation module that generates the output such that the output comprises a plurality of avatars, wherein each avatar from the plurality of avatars represents a respective user from a plurality of users for the visual task board information set; and
a user identification module that identifies a first user from the plurality of users as the primary context in response to the operator input, wherein the operator input comprises dragging on a display device a first avatar from the plurality of avatars, wherein the first avatar represents the first user.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the output generation module is configured such that:
on a condition that the operator input comprises dragging the first avatar to the first card display region or the updated first card display region, generates a plurality of updated avatars, wherein each updated avatar from the plurality of updated avatars represents a respective user from the plurality of users for the visual task board information set; and
on a condition that an association between the first record and the respective user is prohibited, the avatar representing the respective user is overlaid with a prohibition indicator that indicates that the association between the first record and a respective user is prohibited.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
the card generation module generates a second card display region representing a second record from the plurality of records, wherein the second record comprises an information element that has the first value of the visualization metric,
the lane generation module generates the output such that the first lane display region comprises the second card display region, and
the output generation module is configured to:
generate an updated second card display region representing the second record, the updated second card display region comprising an indicator that indicates the association between the second record and the primary context is prohibited; and
generate the updated output such that the updated first lane display region replacing the second card display region with the updated second card display region.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
the card generator module generates the first card display region such that the first card display region comprises a background having a first background color; and
the card generator module updates the updated first card display region such that the updated first card display region comprises a background having a second background color that differs from the first background color.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise:
an association prohibition determination module that determines whether the association between the first record and the primary context is prohibited by:
identifying a plurality of permission records for the visual task board information set; and
determining that a permission record from the plurality of permission records indicates that an association between the user corresponding to the primary context and records having the first value of the visualization metric is prohibited.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise:
an association prohibition determination module that determines whether the association between the first record and the primary context is prohibited by:
identifying a plurality of permission records for the visual task board information set; and
determining that the plurality of permission records omits a permission record that indicates that an association between a user corresponding to the primary context and records having the first value of the visualization metric is allowed.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the output generation module is configured to:
identify the first card display region as the primary context in response to the operator input, wherein t

Assignees

• Servicenow Inc

Inventors

• Azmoon Troy

Classifications

• G06T11/26

  Drawing of charts or graphs · CPC title

• G06Q10/06311

  Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group · CPC title

• G06Q10/109

  Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting · CPC title

• G06Q10/06316 Primary

  Sequencing of tasks or work · CPC title

• G06Q10/06

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title