Interactive geospatial map

• US 10,444,940 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2016
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Palantir Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Palantir Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Cervelli, Daniel, GoGwilt, Cai, Macrae, William, Prochnow, Robert, Scott, Dylan, Tung, Henry, Verdieck, Kevin, Yu, Agatha
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US15/146,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20170052655A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,259 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• 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: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

Various systems and methods are provided that display various interactive user interfaces containing interactive maps. The user may use the interactive map to perform searches for data objects, toggle different layers associated with different types of objects for display, generate heatmaps based upon a grid and/or data object shapes, copy data between different interactive maps, and/or define filters to filter the displayed data. In response to user interaction with the map at a client system, tile layers are generated using server-side components, assembled into map tiles, and transmitted to client-side components to be displayed to the user. The tile layers may include a base tile layer, vector tile layer, selection tile layer, and inactive tile layer.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

an electronic data structure configured to store a plurality of features or objects, wherein each of the features or objects is associated with metadata;

a computer readable medium storing one or more software modules including computer executable instructions;

one or more hardware processors in communication with the electronic data structure and the computer readable medium, and configured to execute a user interface module of the software modules in order to;

display an interactive user interface including;

a map displaying a plurality of data objects, each data object being associated with at least one attribute, and

one or more distributions of the plurality of data objects over attribute values of one or more attributes associated with one or more of the plurality of data objects, wherein at least a first distribution of the one or more distributions comprises a histogram which includes a plurality of selectable bars;

receive a selection of at least one of the plurality of selectable bars in the histogram, wherein the plurality of selectable bars correspond to attribute values associated with the one or more attributes;

generate a first filter based upon the selected at least one of the plurality of selectable bars, wherein the at least one of the plurality of selectable bars is associated with a portion of the plurality of data objects;

receive an update to the map from the server computing device based at least in part upon the first filter;

update the map such that the portion of the plurality of data objects satisfying the first filter are displayed as active data objects selectable by a user, while a remainder of the portion of the plurality of data objects are displayed as inactive data objects and not selectable by the user, wherein the pre-filtered plurality of data objects are displayed on the updated map such that both the active data objects and the inactive data objects are displayed in the map at the same time; and

update the interactive user interface to further include a user interface element corresponding to the first filter.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the displayed inactive data objects are differentiated from the displayed active data objects in appearance by one or more visual effects.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein at least a second distribution of the one or more distributions comprises a timeline.

4. The computer system of claim 3, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to receive the selection of the attribute value in response to a user selecting one or more selectable items associated with the timeline.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to, in response to receiving the selection of at least one of the plurality of selectable bars in the histogram, display one or more distributions of the filtered data objects associated with the selection over at least a portion of the remaining attributes of the one or more attributes.

6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute value comprises an attribute value range.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the at least one attribute value comprises a combination of at least a first attribute value associated with a first attribute and a second attribute value associated with a second attribute.

8. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to:

receive an indication to deactivate the first filter; and

in response to the indication to deactivate the first filter, receive a second update to the map from the server computing device based on the indication;

update the map such that the remainder of the plurality of data objects are displayed as active data objects.

9. The computer system of claim 8 wherein the indication to deactivate the first filter comprises a selection by the user of the user interface element corresponding to the first filter.

10. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to:

in response to a received selection of an attribute value, generate a second filter by providing an indication of the attribute value to a server computing device;

receive a second update to the map from the server computing device based on the indication;

update the map such that data objects of the plurality of data objects that are associated with both the first attribute value and the second attribute value are displayed as active data objects, while the remaining data objects are displayed as inactive data objects; and

update the interactive user interface to further include a user interface element corresponding to the second filter.

11. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to:

in response to a received indication to deactivate the first filter, receive a third update to the map from the server computing device based on the indication, the third update comprising at least a third updated map tile of the map; and

update the map with the third updated map tile such that data objects of the displayed data objects that are associated with the second attribute value are displayed as active data objects, while a remainder of the plurality of data objects that are not selected are displayed as inactive data objects.

12. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the first attribute value and second attribute value are associated with different attributes.

13. The computer system of claim 1, wherein generating the first filter comprises:

providing the selected at least one attribute value to a server computing device; and

receiving the update to the map from the server computing device.

14. A computer-implemented method for analyzing displayed data objects using an interactive user interface, the map comprising:

displaying an interactive user interface including;

a map displaying a plurality of data objects, each data object being associated with at least one attribute, and

one or more distributions of the plurality of data objects over attribute values of one or more attributes associated with the plurality of data objects wherein at least a first distribution of the one or more distributions comprises a histogram which includes a plurality of selectable bars;

receiving a selection of at least one of the plurality of selectable bars in the histogram, wherein the plurality of selectable bars correspond to attribute values associated with the one or more attributes;

generating a first filter based upon the selection of the at least one of the plurality of selectable bars, wherein the selection is associated with a portion of the plurality of data objects;

receiving an update to the map from the server computing device based at least in part upon the first filter, the update comprising at least an updated map tile of the map;

updating the map such that the portion of the plurality of data objects satisfying the first filter are displayed as active data objects selectable by a user, while a remainder of the portion of the plurality of data objects are displayed as inactive data objects and not selectable by the user, wherein the pre-filtered plurality of data objects are displayed on the updated map such that both the active data objects and the inactive data objects are displayed in the map at the same time; and

updating the interactive user interface to further include a user interface element corresponding to the first filter.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising, in response to receiving the selection of the at least one of the plurality of selectable bars in the histogram, displaying one or more distributions of the filtered data objects associated with the selection over at least a portion of the remaining attributes of the one or more attributes.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the attribute values comprise an attribute value range.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving an indication to deactivate the first filter; and

in response to the indication to deactivate the first filter, receiving a second update to the map from the server computing device based on the indication, the second update comprising at least a second updated map tile of the map;

updating the map with the second updated map tile such that the remainder of the plurality of data objects are displayed as active data objects.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

in response to a received selection of a first attribute value, generating a second filter by providing an indication of the first attribute value to a server computing device;

receiving a second update to the map from the server computing device based on the indication, the second update comprising at least a second updated map tile of the map;

updating the map with the second updated map tile such that data objects of the plurality of data objects that are associated with both the first attribute value and the second attribute value are displayed as active data objects, while the remaining data objects are displayed as inactive data objects; and

updating the interactive user interface to further include a user interface element corresponding to the second filter.