User interface providing summary information or a status pane in a web analytics tool

• US 20060277212A1
• Filed: 12/20/2005
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Error, Brett Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,941,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system and method provide a summary comparison of data. The summary may compare filtered and unfiltered data or one set of filtered data to another. The system presents a status pane or window to a user in conjunction with filtered data that is dynamically updated to correspond to the data. A summary of the filtered data is available for display side by side with other filtered data or unfiltered data. The reports and summary are dynamically updated.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a comparison of various website visitation data, the method comprising:

displaying one or more reports comprising website visitation data;

in response to receiving user input to filter the one or more reports, displaying one or more filtered reports; and

in response to receiving user input to activate a comparison report, displaying the comparison report, wherein the comparison report comprises two sets of data and for comparison by a user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the two sets of data comprise a set of filtered data and a set of unfiltered data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the two sets of data comprise a first set of filtered data and a second set of filtered data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input to activate the comparison report comprises receiving selection of one of a plurality of selectable buttons associate with the comparison report.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparison report is a report selected from the group consisting of a summary report, a totals report, a commerce report, a web traffic report, and a paths report.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein receiving user input to filter the one or more filtered reports is in combination with receiving user input to filter the one or more reports as an AND operation.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to receiving user input to filter the one or more filtered reports, displaying one or more twice-filtered reports.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the one or more filtered reports.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more reports are user-customized reports built during a current session.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the comparison report occurs virtually instantaneous with receiving user input to activate the comparison report.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving user input to filter the one or more reports comprises receiving user input to apply two or more filters, the two or more filters combined as an AND operation.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving user input to filter the one or more reports comprises receiving user input to apply two or more filters, the two or more filters combined as an OR operation.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving user input to filter the one or more reports comprises receiving user input to apply two or more filters, the two or more filters combined as an AND operation.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more filtered reports are dynamically updated.

15. A computer-implemented method for providing a comparison of filtered and unfiltered website visitation data, the method comprising:

displaying one or more reports comprising website visitation data;

in response to receiving user input to filter the one or more reports, displaying one or more filtered reports; and

in response to receiving user input to activate a comparison report, displaying the comparison report, wherein the comparison report comprises filtered data and unfiltered data for comparison by a user.

16. A computer readable memory storing a computer program executable by a processor, the computer program producing a user interface for displaying web visitation data reports, the user interface comprising:

a report display area for displaying a plurality of reports comprising website visitation data;

a plurality of filter icons for receiving user input to apply a plurality of filters to a first of the plurality of reports;

wherein the report display area is configured to display a plurality of adjusted reports, each adjusted according to the plurality of filters; and

wherein the report display area is configured to display one or more comparison reports.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, the user interface further comprising one or more selectable buttons.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising:

an executable process that displays the one or more comparison reports in response to receiving user input to activate a slected of the one or more comparison reports.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the one or more comparison reports are displayed in a pop up window.

20. The computer program product of claim 16;

wherein the one or more comparison reports are displayed in a window adjacent to the plurality of adjusted reports.

21. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the one or more comparison reports are selected from the group consisting of a summary report, a totals report, a commerce report, a web traffic report, and a paths report.

22. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the plurality of filter icons are further configured for receiving user input to filter the plurality of filtered reports, and the report display area is further configured for displaying a plurality of twice-filtered reports.

23. A system for providing a summary comparison of website visitation data, the system comprising:

an output module configured for displaying one or more reports;

the input module configured for receiving user input to filter the one or more reports and for receiving user input to activate a comparison report; and

wherein the output module is further configured for displaying one or more filtered reports and displaying a comparison report associated with the one or more filtered reports.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the comparison report is a report selected from the group consisting of a summary report, a totals report, a commerce report, a web traffic report, and a paths report.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the input module is further configured to receive user input to filter the one or more filtered reports and the output module is further configured to display one or more twice-filtered reports.

26. The system of claim 23, further comprising:

a storage module for storing the one or more filtered reports.

27. The system of claim 23, further comprising:

a query module configured for retrieving a data set comprising website visitation data associated with the one or more reports.

28. The system of claim 23, further comprising:

an interpret module configured for interpreting data received from a network.