AGGREGATING MULTIPLE INFORMATION SOURCES (DASHBOARD4LIFE)

• US 20130019195A1
• Filed: 07/12/2011
• Published: 01/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Gates, Adam
• Application Number:
  US13/181,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20130019195A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating accessing data. An example method includes showing a first portion of a display screen, which is adapted to display digital content; illustrating one or more user interface gauges via a second portion of the display screen; and providing a first user option to adjust content displayed via the one or more user interface gauges. In a specific embodiment, the method further includes providing a second user option to control or specify movement of the one or more gauges across the display screen, and providing a third user option to specify a scrolling motion of one or more gauges along a predetermined path.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating access to data, the method comprising:

showing a first portion of a display screen for displaying browsed content;

illustrating one or more user interface gauges via a second portion of the display screen;

providing a first user option to adjust content displayed via the one or more user interface gauges; and

providing a second user option to control movement of the one or more gauges across the display screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein movement of the one or more gauges include a scrolling motion along a predetermined path.

3. The method of claim 2, further including providing a user interface control adapted to enable a user to specify a path along which gauges follow when moving across the display screen.

4. The method of claim 3, further including providing one or more user interface controls adapted to enable a user to specify where a scrolling sequence of gauges terminates, beyond where gauges of the sequence of gauges disappear from the display screen for a predetermined time interval and reappear at a start of the scrolling sequence of gauges after the predetermined time interval.

5. The method of claim 1, further including providing one or more user interface controls adapted to enable a user to adjust a frequency at which a particular gauge appears in the display screen.

6. The method of claim 1, further including providing one or more user interface controls adapted to enable a user to affect content to be displayed via each of the one or more gauges.

7. The method of claim 1, further including providing a third user option to add one or more gauges to be displayed via the display screen and to select or adjust content to be displayed therein.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the content includes streaming video data from a user selected website.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the content includes a measurement of a metric derived from a user specified website.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the metric includes an indication of a number of messages received by a user via an account of the user.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the metric includes a bank or credit card account balance.

12. The method of claim 1, further including providing a fourth user option to activate a user interface skin that adjusts the display screen in accordance with computer code associated with the user interface skin.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the user interface skin includes one or more gauges with one or more predefined characteristics.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the one or more predefined characteristics include gauge shapes, sizes, and hyperlinks characterizing each gauge.

15. The method of claim 1, further including providing a fifth user option to share a gauge with another user of the method.

16. The method of claim 15, further including providing one or more user interface controls to facilitate posting a shared gauge to a predetermined website.

17. The method of claim 1, further including providing a sixth user option to specify content or a link thereto to be pulled to a particular gauge at a predetermined time.

18. The method of claim 1, further including providing a seventh user option to select or configure content to be pulled or pushed to the first portion of the display screen at one or more predetermined times.

19. An apparatus comprising:

a digital processor coupled to a display and to a processor-readable storage device, wherein the processor-readable storage device includes one or more instructions executable by the digital processor to perform the following acts;

showing a first portion of a display screen for displaying browsed content;

illustrating one or more user interface gauges via a second portion of the display screen;

providing a first user option to adjust content displayed via the one or more user interface gauges; and

providing a second user option to control movement of the one or more gauges across the display screen.

20. A processor-readable storage device including instructions executable by a digital processor for modifying a workplace decision-making hierarchy, the processor-readable storage device including one or more instructions for:

showing a first portion of a display screen for displaying browsed content;

illustrating one or more user interface gauges via a second portion of the display screen;

providing a first user option to adjust content displayed via the one or more user interface gauges; and

providing a second user option to control movement of the one or more gauges across the display screen.