SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO A USER

• US 20150007091A1
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nicolas Bissantz
• Original Assignee: Nicolas Bissantz
• Inventors: BISSANTZ, Nicolas
• Granted Patent: US 9,423,921 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/774
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A system for providing information to a user includes a screen for showing the information to the user, receiving means for receiving one or more values from a source of values on which values the information shown to the user is based, generating means for generating two or more data lines wherein each of said data lines comprises at least one data set, wherein the data sets comprise data which are based on said values and wherein the data sets are assigned to at least two data lines by predetermined or changeable criteria displaying means for simultaneously showing said two or more data lines to the user on said screen, and highlighting means for visually highlighting at least one data set out of said two or more data lines according to at least one criterion.

Claims

1. A system for providing information to a user comprising:

a screen for showing the information to the user,

receiving means for receiving one or more values from a source of values on which values the information shown to the user is based,

generating means for generating two or more data lines wherein each of said data lines comprises at least one data set, wherein the data sets comprise data which are based on said values and wherein the data sets are assigned to at least two data lines by predetermined or changeable criteria

displaying means for simultaneously showing said two or more data lines to the user on said screen, and

highlighting means for visually highlighting at least one data set out of said two or more data lines according to at least one criterion.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising comparison means for comparing data comprised in the at least one data set with predetermined or changeable values.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the highlighting means will highlight a data set or a data line depending on the result of the comparison means comparing the data comprised in the at least one data set of said data line.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the comparison means will compare the data comprised in the at least one data set with benchmark values.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the highlighting means will highlight the at least one data set in at least two different ways depending on the at least one criterion.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the highlighting means will highlight the at least one data set using at least two different color tones and/or at least two color shades depending on the at least one criterion.

8. The system according to claim 3 or 7, wherein the highlighting means will highlight the at least one data set using two different color tones depending on whether the comparison means will provide a positive or negative result of the comparison.

9. The system according to claim 3 or 7, wherein the highlighting means will highlight the at least one data set using different color shades of the same color tone if the comparison means will provide a result having the same sign, but different absolute values.

10. The system according to claim 1, further comprising moving means for moving at least one of said data lines on the screen.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the moving means comprise adjustment means for adjusting a speed of the movement of the at least one data line depending on a criterion relating to the at least one data set comprised in the data line.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the criterion relates to a number of data sets comprised in the at least on data line and/or the size of the at least one data set.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the adjusting means will adjust the speed in such a way that a data line comprising a larger number of data sets or larger data sets will move faster than a data line comprising a smaller number of data sets or smaller data sets.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the labels of the data lines are not moved.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises moving means for moving only those data lines which are not fitting onto the screen whereas data lines which are fitting onto the screen are not moved.

16. The system according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the data sets comprises sparklines.

17. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one data line comprises a label designating the kind of data of which the data line is comprised.

18. The system according to claim 1, wherein said values are textual or numerical values.

19. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises uploading means for uploading said data to an internet or intranet web server and integrating means for integrating said data within an internet or intranet web page.

20. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system is adapted to provide the information to the user without requiring access to the intranet or internet.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a database in which said values are stored wherein the database is connected or connectable to said receiving means for receiving the values from the database.

22. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system comprises connection means for connecting the receiving means to an external datasource, database or webservice in which said values are stored.

23. The system according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the databases comprise text files and/or data files.

24. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises update means which are adapted to trigger an update of the data on a regular basis, on demand by the user or automatically, e.g. if any of said values changes.

25. The system according to claim 1, wherein the generating means are adapted to generate the data as text or as graphic representation, such as a vector-based graphic or as a bitmap.

26. The system according to claim 19, wherein said uploading means are adapted to perform said upload of the data to the internet web server by FTP, by file copy or by HTTP or SMTP.

27. The system according to claim 19, wherein the web page is a XML, HTML web page, a XHTML web page or a web page including a flash or java application.

28. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises selecting means for selecting the data, kind of data or kind of visualization of data, such as color, size and the legend of the data, by the user of the system or by the provider of the system, which data are used for generating the data lines.

29. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises detail displaying means for showing details referring to the data shown on the screen.

30. The system according to claim 29, wherein the detail displaying means are adapted to provide size adjustments for depicting more details such as additional labels as well as relative and absolute values or value changes.

31. The system according to claim 29, wherein the detail displaying means are adapted to dynamically enlarge the distance between graphical elements of the data in order to place values or value labels into the generated space.

32. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system further comprises adjusting means for adjusting the movement, such as direction and/or speed of movement of the data lines on the screen.

33. The system according to any one of claims 29 to 32, wherein said detail displaying means and/or said adjusting means are triggered by moving on the screen a pointer to said data or by touching on a touch screen the location on which the data are displayed on the screen.

34. The system according to claim 1, wherein the screen is a touch screen.

5. The system according to claim 5, wherein the benchmark values are generated by benchmark generating means on the basis of historical data or external data.

35. A system for providing information to a user comprising:

a screen for showing the information to the user,

receiving means for receiving one or more values from a source of values on which values the information shown to the user is based,

generating means for generating at least one data line wherein the data line comprises at least one data set, wherein the data sets comprises data which are based on said values,

displaying means for showing said at least one data line to the user on said screen, and

highlighting means for visually highlighting at least one data set out of said at least one data line according to at least one criterion.