DOCUMENT EXPLORATION, ANALYSIS, AND COLLABORATION TECHNIQUES

• US 20150106748A1
• Filed: 10/16/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: Charles Monte
• Inventors: MONTE, CHARLES, RATKOWSKI, RICHARD
• Application Number:
  US14/515,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20150106748A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems and methods for document exploration, analysis, and collaboration are described herein. In an aspect, the method includes receiving a command for displaying a document. Upon receiving the command, it is determined whether the document includes an erroneous data. Based upon the determination, the document is displayed along with a highlighted erroneous data. A primary mode of operation and/or the secondary mode of operation is preformed on the highlighted erroneous data. When the primary mode of operation is performed, one or more sub-data constituting the erroneous data is displayed. When the secondary mode of operation is performed on the erroneous data, a cell action menu is displayed to enable user perform at least one of sharing the erroneous data to one or more recipients, annotating the erroneous data, marking the erroneous data as favorite, and exporting the erroneous data to other application.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

receive a command for displaying a document;

based upon the received command, display the document;

determine whether the document includes an erroneous data;

upon determining the document includes the erroneous data, highlight the erroneous data within the displayed document; and

perform at least one of;

upon receiving a primary mode of operation on data within the document, display one or more sub-data constituting the data; and

upon receiving a secondary mode of operation on the data, display a cell action menu to perform at least one of sharing the data to one or more recipients, annotating the data, marking the data as favorite, saving the data as a tile on a home page, and exporting the data to other application.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the primary mode of operation comprises a single click and the secondary mode of operation comprises one of a double click, a right click, and a long press on touch devices.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data within the document is the highlighted erroneous data.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 including instructions, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform operation further comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a command for editing one or more dimensions and their corresponding measures associated with the document, edit the one or more dimensions and their corresponding measures;

upon receiving a request for displaying one or more predefined row sets, display the one or more predefined row sets, wherein at least one row set of the one or more predefined row sets includes fields associated with the document;

upon receiving selection of a row set from the displayed one or more row sets, update the document row fields with corresponding fields included in the selected row set;

upon receiving a request for displaying one or more predefined column sets, display the one or more predefined column sets, wherein at least one column set of the one or more predefined column sets includes fields associated with the document;

upon receiving selection of a column set from the displayed one or more column sets, update the document column fields with corresponding fields included in the selected column set;

upon receiving a request to swap row fields with column fields of the document, swap the row fields with column fields of the displayed document; and

upon receiving a request to swap column fields with row fields of the document, swap the column fields with row fields of the displayed document.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the document includes an option to toggle between a real-time view and a frozen-time view and wherein the real-time view displays data of the document in a current time and the frozen-time view displays data of the document in one of a selected time and the time when a screenshot of the document is taken.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 comprising instructions, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform operation further comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a command for displaying one or more viewed documents in a tile pane window, display the one or more viewed documents in the tile pane window; and

upon receiving a command relative to a selected document in the tile pane window, perform at least one of;

deleting the selected document;

sharing the selected document with one or more recipients;

removing one or more documents above the selected document in the tile pane window;

removing one or more documents below the selected document in the tile pane window; and

keeping only the selected document.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein a single-finger gesture is used to scroll up and down within the tile pane window.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the cell action menu further comprises an option to view data by one or more categories including at least one of a product, a customer, and a geography.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 comprising instructions, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform operation further comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a selection of view by recipients option from the cell action menu, display one or more recipients associated with the data along with their contact details; and

invoke a communication through at least one of an email, an in-app messaging, a social media, an SMS, and a corporate collaboration network to send required information to the one or more recipients.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 comprising instructions, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform operations further comprising:

upon receiving user'"'"'s request, activate a view pane in the document, wherein the activated view pane enable viewing the document with adjustable focused “

field-of-view,” and

wherein the view pane is re-locatable within the document using at least one of a single-finger gesture and a double-finger gesture.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the field-of-view can be viewed graphically upon receiving user'"'"'s request.

12. A computer-implemented method for document exploration, analysis, and collaboration, the method comprising:

receiving a command for displaying a document;

based upon the received command, displaying the document;

determining whether the document includes an erroneous data;

upon determining the document includes the erroneous data, highlighting the erroneous data within the displayed document; and

performing at least one of;

upon receiving a primary mode of operation on data within the displayed document, display one or more sub-data constituting the data; and

upon receiving a secondary mode of operation on the data within the displayed document, display a cell action menu to perform at least one of sharing the data to one or more recipients, annotating the data, marking the data as favorite, saving the data as a tile on home page, and exporting the data to other application.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the primary mode of operation comprises a single click and the secondary mode of operation comprises one of a double click, a right click, and a long press on touch devices and wherein the data within the displayed document on which the one of primary mode of operation and secondary mode of operation is performed is the erroneous data.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 further comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a request for editing one or more dimensions and their corresponding measures associated with the document, editing the one or more dimensions and their corresponding measures;

upon receiving a request for displaying one or more predefined row sets, displaying the one or more predefined row sets, wherein at least one row set of the one or more predefined row sets includes fields associated with the document;

upon receiving selection of a row set from the displayed one or more row sets, updating the document row fields with corresponding fields included in the selected row set;

upon receiving a request for displaying one or more predefined column sets, displaying the one or more predefined column sets, wherein at least one column set of the one or more predefined column sets includes fields associated with the document;

upon receiving selection of a column set from the displayed one or more column sets, updating the document column fields with corresponding fields included in the selected column set;

upon receiving a request to swap row fields with column fields of the document, swapping the row fields with column fields of the displayed document; and

upon receiving a request to swap column fields with row fields of the document, swapping the column fields with row fields of the displayed document.

15. A computer system for document exploration, analysis, and collaboration comprising:

at least one memory to store executable instructions; and

at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to execute the executable instructions to;

receive a command for displaying a document;

based upon the received command, display the document;

determine whether the document includes an erroneous data;

upon determining the document includes the erroneous data, highlight the erroneous data within the displayed document; and

perform at least one of;

upon receiving a primary mode of operation on data within the document, displaying one or more sub-data constituting the data; and

upon receiving a secondary mode of operation on the data, displaying a cell action menu to perform at least one of sharing the data to one or more recipients, annotating the data, marking the data as favorite, saving the erroneous data as a tile on a home page, and exporting the data to other application.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the primary mode of operation comprises a single click and the secondary mode of operation comprises one of a double click, a right click, and a long press on touch devices and wherein the data within the document is the erroneous data.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the executable instructions to perform operations comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a request for editing one or more dimensions and their corresponding measures associated with the document, edit the one or more dimensions and their corresponding measures;

upon receiving a request for displaying one or more predefined row sets, display the one or more predefined row sets, wherein at least one row set of the one or more predefined row sets includes fields associated with the document;

upon receiving selection of a row set from the displayed one or more row sets, update the document row fields with corresponding fields included in the selected row set;

upon receiving a request for displaying one or more predefined column sets, display the one or more predefined column sets, wherein at least one column set of the one or more predefined column sets includes fields associated with the document;

upon receiving selection of a column set from the displayed one or more column sets, update the document column fields with corresponding fields included in the selected column set;

upon receiving a request to swap row fields with column fields of the document, swap the row fields with column fields of the displayed document; and

upon receiving a request to swap column fields with row fields of the document, swap the column fields with row fields of the displayed document.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the executable instructions to perform operations comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a command for displaying one or more viewed documents in a tile pane window, display the one or more viewed documents in the tile pane window; and

upon receiving a command relative to a selected document in the tile pane window, perform at least one of;

deleting the selected document;

sharing the selected document with one or more recipients;

removing one or more documents above the selected document in the tile pane window;

removing one or more documents below the selected document in the tile pane window; and

keeping only the selected document.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the executable instructions to perform operations comprising at least one of:

upon receiving a selection of view by recipients option from a cell action menu, display one or more recipients associated with the data along with their contact details; and

invoke a communication through at least one of an email, in-app messaging, social media, SMS, and a corporate collaboration network to send required information to the one or more recipients.

20. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the executable instructions to:

upon receiving user'"'"'s request, activate a view pane in the document, wherein the view pane enable viewing the document with adjustable focused “

field-of-view,” and

wherein the view pane is re-locatable within the document using at least one of a single-finger gesture and a double-finger gesture.