TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAY OF INFORMATION RELATED TO POLICIES

• US 20120005631A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: B'Far, Reza, Boucher, Lloyd, Cengiz, Yasin, Tseng, Tsai-Ming, Goh, Logan, Chakrabarti, Malini, Nguyen, Huyvu, Bass, Timothy Jason, Le, Minh, Paxi, Rafael, Adavikolanu, Neeharika, Lingg, Elizabeth
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,958 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/854
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities

Abstract

Techniques for displaying information. Policy violations are identified, based at least in part on data stored in a data store. For the policy violations, a plurality of semantic objects related to the violations are identified. Arrangements of graphical objects are displayed where the graphical objects represent the identified semantic objects and where the arrangement indicates one or more relationships between pairs of the semantic objects.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of displaying information, comprising:

under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,

identifying, based at least in part on data stored in a data store, a policy violation;

identifying a plurality of semantic objects related to the policy violation; and

causing display of graphical representations of the semantic objects in an arrangement indicative of one or more relationships between one or more pairs of the semantic objects.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the arrangement includes a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and one or more edges connecting at least a subset of the nodes, each of the plurality of nodes corresponding to at least one of the semantic objects.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the one or more edges between a particular pair of nodes indicates a direction between the particular pair, the direction indicating a characteristic of a relationship between semantic objects corresponding to the particular pair.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

for one or more of the semantic objects, identifying one or more workflows related to the one or more semantic objects; and

causing the display of a workflow representation with the arrangement.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising assigning attributes to one or more of the semantic objects, and wherein one or more of the graphical representations have one or more visual characteristics corresponding to one or more of the assigned attributes.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the graphical representations represents a set of the semantic objects, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving selection of said at least one graphical representations; and

causing display of second graphical representations of the set of graphical representations in a second arrangement indicative of one or more second relationships between one or more pairs of the set of semantic objects.

7. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that cause one or more processors to display information, the instructions comprising:

instructions that cause the one or more processors to identify, based at least in part on data stored in a data store, a policy violation;

instructions that cause the one or more processors to identify a plurality of semantic objects related to the policy violation; and

instructions that cause the one or more processors to cause display of graphical representations of the semantic objects in an arrangement indicative of one or more relationships between one or more pairs of the semantic objects.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the arrangement includes a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and one or more edges connecting at least a subset of the nodes, each of the plurality of nodes corresponding to at least one of the semantic objects.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein at least one of the one or more edges between a particular pair of nodes indicates a direction between the particular pair, the direction indicating a characteristic of a relationship between semantic objects corresponding to the particular pair.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, further comprising:

instructions that cause the one or more processors to, for one or more of the semantic objects, identify one or more workflows related to the one or more semantic objects; and

instructions that cause the one or more processors to cause the display of a workflow representation with the arrangement.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, further comprising instructions that cause the one or more processors to assign attributes to one or more of the semantic objects, and wherein one or more of the graphical representations have one or more visual characteristics corresponding to one or more of the assigned attributes.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein at least one of the graphical representations represents a set of the semantic objects, and wherein the instructions further comprise:

instructions that cause the one or more processors to receive selection of said at least one graphical representations; and

instructions that cause the one or more processors to cause display of second graphical representations of the set of graphical representations in a second arrangement indicative of one or more second relationships between one or more pairs of the set of semantic objects.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein at least a portion of the arrangement represents a Baysian network.

14. A system for causing display of information, comprising:

at least one data store for storing data;

one or more processors at least operable to;

determine, based at least in part on the data, a policy violation;

identify a plurality of semantic objects related to the policy violation; and

cause display of graphical representations of the semantic objects in an arrangement indicative of one or more relationships between one or more pairs of the semantic objects.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the arrangement includes a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and one or more edges connecting at least a subset of the nodes, each of the plurality of nodes corresponding to at least one of the semantic objects.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein at least one of the one or more edges between a particular pair of nodes indicates a direction between the particular pair, the direction indicating a characteristic of a relationship between semantic objects corresponding to the particular pair.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are further operable to:

for one or more of the semantic objects, identify one or more workflows related to the one or more semantic objects; and

cause the display of a workflow representation with the arrangement.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are further operable to cause the one or more processors to assign attributes to one or more of the semantic objects, and wherein one or more of the graphical representations have one or more visual characteristics corresponding to one or more of the assigned attributes.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein at least one of the graphical representations represents a set of the semantic objects, and wherein the one or more processors are further operable to:

receive selection of said at least one graphical representations; and

cause display of second graphical representations of the set of graphical representations in a second arrangement indicative of one or more second relationships between one or more pairs of the set of semantic objects.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein at least a portion of the arrangement represents a Baysian network.