Layout Manager

• US 20110040726A1
• Filed: 09/17/2008
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inivai Technologies Pty., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Inivai Technologies Pty., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cordioli, Vittorio, Crosbie, Nicholas Daryl
• Application Number:
  US12/678,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20110040726A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/610
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2428 Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms G06F16/2423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data

Abstract

A computer-implemented system for creating or managing layouts, comprising a browser application and one or more display clients for rendering data-oriented views. The browser application is user-operable to select or locate data sources and to select data-oriented views and thereby to control the browser application to control the display clients to render the selected data-oriented views based on the selected data sources. The browser application may include an icon module for generating increment icons, the increment icons being user-operable to select the data sources and the data-oriented views.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system for creating or managing layouts, comprising:

a browser application; and

one or more display clients for rendering data-oriented views;

wherein said browser application is user-operable to select or locate data sources and to select data-oriented views and thereby to control said browser application to control said display clients to render said selected data-oriented views based on said selected data sources.

2. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said browser application includes an icon module for generating increment icons, said increment icons being user-operable to select said data sources and said data-oriented views.

3. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system is configure to operate either supervised or unsupervised.

4. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system is controllable to establish connections between computing devices and perform an analysis, and to output results of said analysis according to user definable settings.

5. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system is controllable to search for said data sources according to one or more user-defined search criteria.

6. A system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said one or more user-defined search criteria comprise similarity in one or more user-defined parameters to within a user-defined tolerance.

7. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said data-oriented views comprise display elements, said display clients rendering said data-oriented views by rendering said display elements.

8. A system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said browser application includes a module for inviting one or more display clients to render said display elements constituting a data-oriented view or views, and for handling return states.

9. A system as claimed in claim 1, including a UUID module operable by a user to associate a data-oriented view with a universal unique identifier, and configured to make said universal unique identifier available to a display client or clients responsible for rendering said data-oriented view and to said browser application.

10. A system as claimed in claim 9, wherein said UUID module comprises GUI elements and methods.

11. A system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a synchronization service for providing persistent storage and synchronization of records pertaining to said data-oriented views;

a metadata service for creating, storing, accessing, discovering and exchanging metadata; and

an application launch service for allowing said browser application to open one or more display clients.

12. A system as claimed in claim 1, including an event notification system for managing notifications across multiple tasks.

13. A system as claimed in claim 1, including a metadata service configured to control displaying of data source metadata presented for browsing or operation of said increment icons.

14. A computer-implemented method for creating or managing layouts, comprising:

operating a browser application to select or locate data sources and to select data-oriented views; and

controlling said browser application to control said display clients to render said selected data-oriented views based on said selected data sources.

15. A method as claimed in claim 14, including generating increment icons with a module of said browser application, and operating said increment icons to said select data sources and said data-oriented views.

16. A method as claimed in claim 14, including employing a metadata service to control display of data source metadata presented for browsing or operation of said increment icons.

17. A method as claimed in claim 14, including searching for said data sources according to one or more user-defined search criteria.

18. A method as claimed in claim 14, wherein said one or more user-defined search criteria comprise similarity in one or more user-defined parameters to within a user-defined tolerance.