Graphic zoom functionality for a custom report

• US 20090147026A1
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Buck, Schuyler, Young, Morris J., Bush, Jason, Leahy, Scott W.
• Application Number:
  US11/999,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20090147026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/666
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof

Abstract

The present invention relates to a software zoom feature capable of magnifying data plotted on a graph. The graph may display any type of data including medical data. The graph may also be customizable as to the type of data displayed. The data that is to be magnified by the zoom feature may be selected using a click and drag technique with an input device, such as a mouse, connected to a computer.

Claims

1. A method of magnifying a portion of a custom graph comprising the steps of:

plotting a first set of data on a graph including a display area;

selecting a portion of the graph to magnify; and

expanding the selected portion of the graph to substantially fill the display area.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of plotting a second set of data on the display area.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2 further including the step of selecting the type of data comprising the second set of data.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of selecting the type of data comprising the first set of data.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4 wherein the type of data includes blood glucose measurements.

6. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of selecting a date range for the data to be plotted on the display area.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of selecting an icon in order to display the first data set in the display area without magnification.

8. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of indicating with an indicator at least one data point of the first set of data that that is not depicted in the display area.

9. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of plotting a pair of close data of the first set of data as a single data point.

10. The method as set forth in claim 9 further including the step of plotting the pair of close data of the first set of data as a pair of data points and the step of expanding the selected portion of the graph.

11. A method of displaying a first set of data on a graph including a display area, the method comprising the steps of:

selecting a date range in order to determine a subset of the first set of data;

plotting the subset of the first set of data on the display area;

selecting a portion of the display area; and

magnifying the selected portion of the display area to substantially fill the entire display area.

12. The method as set forth in claim 11 further comprising the step of selecting a first type of data comprising the first set of data.

13. The method as set forth in claim 12 further comprising the step of selecting a second type of data comprising the first set of data.

14. The method as set forth in claim 11 wherein a portion of the subset of the first set of data is plotted on the display area in the magnification step.

15. The method as set forth in claim 11 further comprising the step of plotting the entire subset of the first set of data in the display area following the magnifying step.

16. The method as set forth in claim 15 wherein the graph includes an icon configured to initiate the plotting of the entire subset of data step when the icon is selected.

17. The method as set forth in claim 11 wherein the step of selecting a date range includes the steps of:

selecting a beginning date from a first calendar; and

selecting an ending date from a second calendar.

18. The method as set forth in claim 11 wherein the first set of data is blood glucose data.

19. The method as set forth in claim 11 further including the step of plotting a subset of a second set of data.

20. The method as set forth in claim 19 wherein the subset of the second set of data depends upon the selected date range.

21. The method as set forth in claim 19 further including the step of selecting the type of data comprising the second set of data.

22. The method as set forth in claim 11 wherein the subset of the first set of data includes all of the first set of data.