PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING REAL-TIME POSITION AND MOVEMENT DATA

• US 20120089920A1
• Filed: 10/06/2011
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omnitracs LLC (Solera Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Stephen Gregory Eick
• Inventors: Eick, Stephen Gregory
• Granted Patent: US 8,869,038 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/739
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

A geospatial platform for building applications involving location and time is disclosed. The applications allow users to analyze and make sense of the location and time-based data generated by a wide variety of devices in real time, as it is generated. The platform in one example features a dashboard for associating code statements with a variety of data visualizations. The code statements access real-time and/or location based data and generate a result set that is optimized for displaying a selected data visualization in the dashboard. The code statements are ideally executed on a server so that large quantities of data can be manipulated as it is generated by various devices in real-time.

Claims

1. A platform for creating wireless data applications, comprising:

a server for executing code that selects data and formats it according to a chosen data visualization;

display for showing data visualizations which can be selected by a user of the display;

input device for matching a data source with a data visualization and choosing a code to execute on the data source.

2. The geospatial platform of claim 1 wherein the data visualizations are updated in real-time.

3. A geospatial platform for creating data analysis applications for visualizing time and location data sets, comprising:

a server for receiving a plurality of time and location data sets from a plurality of sources, and for executing code statements that select data from a selected data set of the plurality of time and location data sets and format it according to a data visualization;

a computing device, coupled to the server, having a display for showing a plurality of data visualizations which can be selected and a plurality of code statements which can be selected, said display also showing data visualizations based on the execution of code statements by the server; and

input device for choosing a code statement and matching it with the selected data set and the selected data visualization, then sending the code statement to the server for execution.

4. The geospatial platform of claim 3 wherein the code statements can be written to execute repeated so that the data visualizations are updated on the display in real-time.

5. A method for creating real-time data analysis applications by a developer using a computing device, comprising:

displaying a list of one or more data visualizations on the computing device;

displaying a list of one or more time-stamped data sets on the computing device;

entering into the computing device, by a developer, a code statement describing an association between a selected data visualization and a selected data set;

executing the code statement by a server operatively coupled to the computing device, the server accessing the selected data set and creating a results set which is bound to the properties of the selected data visualization; and

returning the results set to the computing device for display and interaction by the developer.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the code statement is a SQL query.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the results set is a table and the table column names correspond to properties of the data visualization.

9. The method of claim 5 wherein the code statement is an R statistical algorithm.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the results set is an image of a probability distribution.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the results set is a data frame with specified columns.

12. The method of claim 5 where the list of data visualizations comprises one or more of bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots, geospatial maps, timelines, time wheels, text-based displays and statistical algorithms.

6. The method of claim 6 wherein the code statement can be written to execute repeated so that the data visualization is updated on the display in real-time.

13. A computer-based method for use by a developer in creating real-time wireless data analysis applications, comprising:

providing a dashboard on a computing device, the dashboard including one or more data visualizations and a list of one or more time-stamped data sets;

entering into the dashboard, by the developer, a code statement for accessing selected data from a specific time-stamped data set;

dragging, by the developer, the code statement and dropping it onto a selected data visualizations from the list of visual metaphors;

executing the code statement and generating a result set, based on the selected time-stamped data set, which is used to display the selected data visualizations on the computing device.

14. The method of claim 13 where the list of data visualizations comprises one or more of bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots, geospatial maps, timelines, time wheels, text-based displays and statistical algorithms.