System, method and computer program for providing a time map of rolled-up data
First Claim
16. A data processing system comprising a memory for storing a data and a user interface for enabling a user to select data from the stored data to be presented in a report form, further comprising a display controller, coupled to said user interface and to said stored data, for displaying with the user interface periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which data is available, the periods of time being displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions, said display controller being responsive to the user selecting a point on a time line for displaying a report that is descriptive of the corresponding stored data.
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Abstract
Disclosed are embodiments of a method, a system and a computer program product for selecting data to be presented in a report form. A selector window is displayed to a user, the selector window displaying periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which data is available. The periods of time are displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions. In response to the user selecting a point on a time line, the method, system and computer program product displays a report of that data. The method, system and computer program product further display a partition within a time line to comprise a visual indicator to indicate the occurrence of at least one event of interest that occurred during the time that corresponds to that partition. The data may represent computer system performance metric data that includes rolled-up data, and an absence of a displayed partition indicates to the user that the corresponding data is not available.
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31 Claims
- 16. A data processing system comprising a memory for storing a data and a user interface for enabling a user to select data from the stored data to be presented in a report form, further comprising a display controller, coupled to said user interface and to said stored data, for displaying with the user interface periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which data is available, the periods of time being displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions, said display controller being responsive to the user selecting a point on a time line for displaying a report that is descriptive of the corresponding stored data.
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27-1. A data processing system as in claim 16, where said display controller is responsive to a user selecting a partition, for displaying text that is descriptive of the selected partition.
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30. A computer executed method to enable a user to select computer system performance metric data to be presented in a report form, the method comprising displaying periods of time for indicating those periods of time for which performance metric data is available, the periods of time being displayed as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions and, in response to the user selecting a point on a time line, displaying a report descriptive of corresponding performance metric data, where at least some of the performance metric data is comprised of rolled-up data, and where an absence of a displayed partition indicates to the user that the corresponding performance metric data is not available, where the method further comprises displaying a partition within a time line to comprise a visual indicator to indicate an occurrence of at least one event of interest during the time that corresponds to that partition.
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31. A system for presenting computer system performance metric data in a report form, said system comprising means for determining periods of time for which performance metric data is available and unavailable, where at least some of the performance metric data is comprised of rolled-up data, means for displaying the periods of time as a stack of temporally aligned time lines that are each partitioned into time periods of different duration, where each partition of a given time line has a spatial extent that differs from the spatial extent of partitions of other time lines, with longer partitions encompassing a plurality of shorter partitions, said system further comprising means, operating in response to receiving a signal from a user interface means that indicates a point on a displayed time line, for outputting a report descriptive of performance metric data associated with the indicated point on the time line, said display means further displaying at least one partition within a time line to comprise a visual indicator to indicate an occurrence of at least one event of interest during the time that corresponds to the at least one partition.
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