Rich end-user data views

• US 20050246637A1
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Published: 11/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Knight, Holly, Seshadri, Praveen, Pearce, Douglas R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,051,406 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/700
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/025 Extracting rules from data

Abstract

A system and/or methodology that enables personalization as a platform service for applications via a rich data view. More particularly, the subject invention provides for a rich data view to be rendered to an end-user whereas management of the data can be effected (e.g., personalized) thereafter. In other words, the invention enables a user to establish and access personalized mechanisms via a rich data view. The personalized mechanisms are based upon rule-based logic with respect to application data types.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates data management, comprising:

a rich data view component that renders a customization component to an end-user, the customization component allows the end-user to personalize an application; and

an integration component that interfaces the customization component with the rich data view component.

2. The system of claim 1, the rich data view component is a platform element of a store.

3. The system of claim 1, the integration component processes application data at least one of externally and internally to return a result to the rich data view component.

4. The system of claim 1, the customization component is a dynamic set component that facilitates defining a subset of application data.

5. The system of claim 1, the customization component is a property definition component that facilitates defining a hierarchy for a subset of application data based upon an end-user defined property.

6. The system of claim 5, the end-user defined property is a static property.

7. The system of claim 5, the end-user defined property is a computed property.

8. The system of claim 1, the customization component is an action component that represents an end-user defined action to be performed on a subset of application data.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a learning component that facilitates the application learning end-user behavior, and captures the behavior in the form of rules.

10. The system of claim 1, the customizing component represents an end-user defined relationship between elements in a store, the relationship is at least one of common value based and link based.

11. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for carrying out the system of claim 1.

12. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of facilitating a rich data view, the method comprising:

defining an end-user programmable component to an end-user, the end-user programmable component facilitates allowing the end-user to program one or more rules;

associating the one or more rules with a type or an instance of a type; and

rendering a processed subset of the data into the rich data view.

13. The medium of claim 12, the method further comprises displaying content of a data store via the rich data view.

14. The medium of claim 12, the method further comprises returning the subset of the data from processing in accordance with the one or more rules.

15. The medium of claim 12, the end-user programmable component facilitates defining the subset of the data.

16. The medium of claim 12, the method further comprises at least one of:

associating one or more view definitions with a type or instance of a type; and

associating the one or more rules to define relationships between types or instances of types.

17. The medium of claim 12, the end-user programmable component facilitates generating a task to be performed on the subset of the data.

18. A system for end-user data manipulation via a rich data view, comprising:

means for enabling a user to create a customization component that defines a subset of data in a file store in accordance with a rule;

means for maintaining the customization component; and

means for interfacing the customization component into a rich data view; and

means for rendering the rich data view to the user.

19. The system of claim 18, the customization component is at least one of a dataset definition component, a data property definition component and a data relationship definition component.

20. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon the components of claim 18.