Methods and devices for adjusting chart filters

• US 10,706,597 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2015
• Issued: 07/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tableau Software Incorporated (Salesforce.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tableau Software Incorporated (Salesforce.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Stewart, Robin
• Primary Examiner(s): Paula, Cesar B
• Assistant Examiner(s): Faber, David
• Application Number:
  US14/603,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20170010776A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,993 Days
• Field of Search: 715212, 715215, 715863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting

Abstract

A method at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display includes displaying a first chart on the display. The first chart concurrently displays a first set of categories and each respective category has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the first chart. The method further includes detecting a first touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of a first visual mark for a first category in the first chart, and, in response to detecting the first touch input, removing the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart via an animated transition, and updating display of the first chart. The first visual mark moves in concert with movement of a finger contact in the first touch input during at least a portion of the animated transition.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display;

displaying a first chart on the display, wherein;

the first chart concurrently displays a first set of categories; and

each respective category in the first set of categories has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the first chart;

detecting a first touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of a first visual mark for a first category in the first chart;

in response to detecting the first touch input;

removing the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart via a first animated transition, wherein the first visual mark moves in concert with movement of a finger contact in the first touch input during at least a portion of the first animated transition; and

updating display of the first chart via a second animated transition, wherein the second animated transition transforms the first chart from a first state that includes the first visual mark to a second state that does not include the first visual mark;

after removing the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart, changing from displaying the first chart with the first set of categories, other than the first category, to displaying a second chart, wherein;

the second chart concurrently displays a second set of categories that are distinct from the first set of categories; and

each respective category in the second set of categories has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the second chart;

while displaying the second chart with the second set of categories, detecting a second touch input that corresponds to the removed first category; and

in response to detecting the second touch input, updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category, including updating a second visual mark for a second category in the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category and to the second category.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first touch input is a drag gesture or a swipe gesture that moves in a first predefined direction on the touch-sensitive surface.

3. The method of claim 1, including:

in response to detecting the first touch input at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location on the display of the first visual mark for the first category in the first chart, ceasing to display the first visual mark.

4. The method of claim 1, including:

in response to detecting the first touch input at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location on the display of the first visual mark for the first category in the first chart, displaying an indicium that the first category has been removed.

5. The method of claim 4,

wherein the second touch input corresponding to the removed first category includes a touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of the indicium that the first category has been removed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category includes reordering display of the second set of categories in the second chart.

7. The method of claim 1, including:

after updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category, detecting a third touch input; and

,

in response to detecting the third touch input, updating display of the second chart to reflect removal of data that corresponds to the first category.

8. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a touch-sensitive surface;

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a first chart on the display, wherein;

the first chart concurrently displays a first set of categories; and

each respective category in the first set of categories has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the first chart;

detecting a first touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of a first visual mark for a first category in the first chart;

in response to detecting the first touch input;

removing the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart via a first animated transition, wherein the first visual mark moves in concert with movement of a finger contact in the first touch input during at least a portion of the first animated transition; and

updating display of the first chart via a second animated transition, wherein the second animated transition transforms the first chart from a first state that includes the first visual mark to a second state that does not include the first visual mark;

after removing the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart, changing from displaying the first chart with the first set of categories, other than the first category, to displaying a second chart, wherein;

the second chart concurrently displays a second set of categories that are distinct from the first set of categories; and

each respective category in the second set of categories has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the second chart;

while displaying the second chart with the second set of categories, detecting a second touch input that corresponds to the removed first category; and

in response to detecting the second touch input, updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category, including updating a second visual mark for a second category in the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category and to the second category.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the first touch input is a drag gesture or a swipe gesture that moves in a first predefined direction on the touch-sensitive surface.

10. The device of claim 8, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in response to detecting the first touch input at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location on the display of the first visual mark for the first category in the first chart, ceasing to display the first visual mark.

11. The device of claim 8, the one or more programs further including

in response to detecting the first touch input at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location on the display of the first visual mark for the first category in the first chart, displaying an indicium that the first category has been removed.

12. The device of claim 11,

wherein the second touch input corresponding to the removed first category includes a touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of the indicium that the first category has been removed.

13. The device of claim 8, wherein updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category includes reordering display of the second set of categories in the second chart.

14. The device of claim 8, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

after updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category, detecting a third touch input; and

,

in response to detecting the third touch input, updating display of the second chart to reflect removal of data that corresponds to the first category.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions that, when executed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the device to:

display a first chart on the display, wherein;

the first chart concurrently displays a first set of categories; and

each respective category in the first set of categories has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the first chart;

detect a first touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of a first visual mark for a first category in the first chart;

in response to detecting the first touch input;

remove the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart via a first animated transition, wherein the first visual mark moves in concert with movement of a finger contact in the first touch input during at least a portion of the first animated transition; and

update display of the first chart via a second animated transition, wherein the second animated transition transforms the first chart incrementally from a first state that includes the first visual mark to a second state that does not include the first visual mark;

after removing the first category and the first visual mark from the first chart, change from displaying the first chart with the first set of categories, other than the first category, to displaying a second chart, wherein;

the second chart concurrently displays a second set of categories that are distinct from the first set of categories; and

each respective category in the second set of categories has a corresponding visual mark displayed in the second chart;

while displaying the second chart with the second set of categories, detect a second touch input that corresponds to the removed first category; and

in response to detecting the second touch input, update display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category, including updating a second visual mark for a second category in the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category and to the second category.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first touch input is a drag gesture or a swipe gesture that moves in a first predefined direction on the touch-sensitive surface.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more programs include instructions that, when executed by the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting the first touch input at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location on the display of the first visual mark for the first category in the first chart, cease to display the first visual mark.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more programs include instructions that, when executed by the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

in response to detecting the first touch input at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location on the display of the first visual mark for the first category in the first chart, display an indicium that the first category has been removed.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the second touch input corresponding to the removed first category includes a touch input at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location on the display of the indicium that the first category has been removed.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category includes reordering display of the second set of categories in the second chart.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more programs include instructions that, when executed by the electronic device, cause the electronic device to:

after updating display of the second chart to reflect inclusion of data that corresponds to the first category, detect a third touch input; and

,

in response to detecting the third touch input, update display of the second chart to reflect removal of data that corresponds to the first category.