Methods and systems for displaying customized icons

• US 10,345,114 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2016
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peck Labs, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Peck Labs, Inc.
• Inventors: Apley, Phillip George
• Primary Examiner(s): Uber, Nathan C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Amsdell, Dana
• Application Number:
  US15/338,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20170067751A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3641 Personalized guidance, e.g. limited guidance on previously travelled routes
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 2203/00 Application of thermometers in cryogenics
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/00 Meteorology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0013 with a ground station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0021 located in the aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0034 Assembly of a flight plan
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0091 for monitoring atmospheric conditions radar or analogous systems specially adapted for meteorological use G01S13/95; meteorology G01W

Abstract

A method, and system for practicing the method, for processing measurable characteristics, by storing zero or more definitions of a threshold for one or more measurable characteristics, zero or more definitions of a conditional expression applicable to one or more measurable characteristics and one or more computable functions with inputs of zero or more of the measurable characteristics, zero or more of the definitions of a conditional expression, and zero or more of the definitions of a conditional expression are associated with an identifier. Data for one or more time intervals is received, and the computable functions are applied for each of the one or more time intervals, using a given identifier, to at least one measurable characteristic measurement, to produce one or more calculated desirability values. A graphical icon generated suitable for display on a display device based on the one or more calculated desirability values, wherein distinct graphical features of the icon at each of a plurality of points upon the icon are each determined based on the one or more calculated desirability values, where said one or more time intervals corresponds to a rotational angle of said point upon the icon and where 360 degrees of the rotational angle corresponds to some unit of time.

Claims

1. A method comprising causing a computer to:

receive a representation of resource characteristics indexed by domain values, where the resource characteristics comprise characteristic values;

apply a first set of customization data comprising domain value independent thresholds, conditionals, or functions to filter resource characteristics on a characteristic value by characteristic value basis where the customization data is independent of the domain values, meaningful in the application context, and does not comprise a display characteristic;

for more than one domain value apply a second set of customization data to the filtered resource characteristic values corresponding to each such domain value to produce a customized result value indexed with a domain value which comprises a custom display characteristic;

construct runs of domain values corresponding to customized result values having the same custom display characteristic;

rendering a graphical representation comprising the custom display characteristic where;

the domain values are represented by a visually discernable graphical feature, the custom display characteristic is proximate to the visually discernable graphical feature representing a domain value, and the runs of domain values are readily visually discernable by virtue of the custom display characteristics, and the graphical representation is responsive to user interaction, where the visually discernable graphical feature is rotation where the change in the angle of rotation corresponds to a change of a predetermined value in a domain value.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the shape of the graphical representation is a cyclically repeating shape such as coiled spring shape as drawn in two dimensions.

3. The method of claim 1 where the graphical representation is configured to be responsive to user interaction by opening a popup display.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain values comprise time-dependent data that indexes a forecast or a history.

5. The method of claim 1 where a user or other agent may modify the, domain value independent thresholds, conditionals, or functions and, in response, the computer updates the graphical representation.

6. The method of claim 1 where multiple active customized graphical representations are rendered on the computer display where the positions or other distinguishing characteristic corresponds to the species of a genus being referred to by the a given graphical representation.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the shape of the graphical representation is selected from the group of a circle, spiral, or annulus.

8. The method of claim 1 where the characteristic value is a historical, current, postulated or predicted measurement which may be a function of time.

9. The method of claim 1 where a change to the thresholds, conditionals, or functions operates as a request.

10. The method of claim 1 where a change in resource characteristics functions as a request.