Apparatus and Method for Visualizing Data with Symmetric Total Values, First Values and Second Values

• US 20110069072A1
• Filed: 09/18/2009
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Business Objects Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Business Objects Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Nakano, Hozumi
• Application Number:
  US12/562,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20110069072A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to accept data. A criterion associated with the data is identified. A total value comprised of the sum of first values and second values is specified. A first indicator of the total value relative to the first values is displayed. A second indicator of the total value relative to the second values is also displayed. The first indicator is separate from and in a symmetrical relationship with the second indicator.

Claims

1. A computer readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions to:

accept data;

identify a criterion associated with the data;

specify a total value comprised of the sum of first values and second values;

display a first indicator of the total value relative to the first values; and

display a second indicator of the total value relative to the second values, wherein the first indicator is separate from and in a symmetrical relationship with the second indicator.

2. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the first indicator is symmetrical with the second indicator along a common axis.

3. The computer readable storage medium of claim 2 wherein the first indicator extends in a first direction along the common axis and the second indicator extends in a second direction opposite the first direction along the common axis.

4. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the first indicator is symmetrical with the second indicator on opposite sides of a common axis.

5. The computer readable storage medium of claim 4 wherein the first indicator extends in a first direction along a first side of the common axis and the second indicator extends in the first direction along a second side of the common axis.

6. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the first indicator is a bar representative of the total value with a sub-bar representative of the first values.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the second indicator is a bar representative of the total value with a sub-bar representative of the second values.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the first indicator is a line representative of the total value with a mark positioned on the line representative of the first values.

9. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the second indicator is a line representative of the total value with a mark positioned on the line representative of the second values.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the first indicator and the second indicator are vertically aligned.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the first indicator and the second indicator are horizontally aligned.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to identify a criterion associated with the data include executable instructions to derive the criterion from the data.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions to identify a criterion associated with the data include executable instructions to receive a user-specified criterion for the data.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to compute at least one of the total value, the first values and the second values.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 1 further comprising executable instructions to accept visualization preferences.