Dynamic Identification of Supported Items in an Application

• US 20150170065A1
• Filed: 12/13/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visier Solutions Inc. (Visier, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Visier Solutions Inc. (Visier, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zenger, Geoffrey, Hanna, Ryan Wayne, Sit, Chuen Yan
• Granted Patent: US 9,836,708 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2465 Query processing support for facilitating data mining operations in structured databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Systems and methods of dynamically identifying supported items in an application are described. In one example, an analytics engine receives an indication of available client data, a user'"'"'s enterprise role, and/or a user'"'"'s security level. The analytics engine identifies a first subset of supported semantic items (e.g., business topics, business topics, measures, etc.) and a second subset of unsupported semantic items. For example, a semantic item may be supported if corresponding client data is available for analysis and the user'"'"'s role/security level enable access to the client data. The analytics engine may send data including the supported semantic items and excluding the unsupported semantic items to an application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of dynamically generating graphical user analysis interfaces, the method comprising:

at an analytics engine configured to analyze a set of semantic items based on data models and processing models;

receiving a first indication that first client data is available for use by the analytics engine, wherein the analytics engine is configured to analyze the first client data using the set of semantic items;

subsequent to receiving the first indication;

identifying a first subset of semantic items that are supported by the first client data; and

identifying a second subset of semantic items that are unsupported by the first client data;

sending first graphical user interface (GUI) data to a client instance, wherein the first GUI data identifies the first subset of semantic items and excludes the second subset of semantic items;

receiving a second indication that second client data that supports the second subset of semantic items is available for use by the analytics engine; and

subsequent to receiving the second indication, sending second GUI data to the client instance, wherein the second GUI data identifies the second subset of semantic items.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of semantic items includes at least one business term, at least one business concept, at least one business question, at least one business model, at least one business measure, or any combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first indication is received at a first time and wherein the second indication is received at a second time that is subsequent to the first time.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a third indication that a portion of the first client data has become unavailable;

determining that one or more semantic items in the first subset rely on the portion of the first client data; and

sending third GUI data to the client instance, wherein the third GUI data excludes the one or more semantic items.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first indication is received at a first time, wherein the second indication is received at a second time, and wherein the third indication is received at a third time that is subsequent to the first time and subsequent to the second time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the client instance corresponds to a particular enterprise client.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein execution of the client instance is initiated by a particular user.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the particular user is associated with a particular enterprise client and wherein the first GUI data and the second GUI data excludes one or more semantic items that are unavailable based on the particular enterprise client.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first indication and the second indication are associated with a first client instance, and further comprising:

receiving a third indication of third client data associated with a second client instance;

subsequent to receiving the third indication;

identifying a third subset of semantic items that are supported by the third client data; and

identifying a fourth subset of semantic items that are unsupported by the third client data;

sending third GUI data to the second client instance, wherein the third GUI data identifies the third subset of semantic items and excludes the fourth subset of semantic items;

receiving a fourth indication that fourth client data that supports the fourth subset of semantic items is available for use by the analytics engine; and

sending fourth GUI data to the second client instance, wherein the fourth GUI data identifies the fourth subset of semantic items.

3. (canceled)

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

detecting startup of an application in an analytics engine configured to analyze a set of semantic items based on data models and processing models to dynamically generate graphical user analysis interfaces, wherein the application is configured to compute a set of measures;

determining a subset of computable measures based on a security level of a user of the application and based on an indication from a client instance that client data is available for use by the application to analyze the client data using the set of semantic items;

determining a first subset of semantic items that are supported and a second subset of semantic items that are unsupported based on the subset of computable measures; and

sending data identifying the first subset of semantic items that are supported to the application and excluding the second subset of semantic items that are unsupported, wherein the second subset of semantic items become available for use upon determining that second client data is available.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein determining the subset of computable measures includes:

identifying a query associated with a particular measure;

identifying a set of data columns of the client data processed during computation of the particular measure; and

determining that the particular measure is computable when the security level of the user enables access to each data column in the identified set of data columns and when each data column in the identified set of data columns is populated.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise storing data identifying the subset of computable measures and sending data identifying the subset of computable measures to the application.

14. An apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to analyze a set of semantic items based on data models and processing models to dynamically generate graphical user analysis interfaces; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving first information identifying first client data available for use by the processor to support analysis of the client data based on the set of semantic items;

subsequent to receiving the first information,

identifying a first subset of semantic items that are available to a client instance and

identifying a second subset of semantic items that are unavailable to the client instance user;

sending first graphical user interface (GUI) data to the client instance, wherein the first GUI data identifies the first subset of semantic items and excludes the second subset of semantic items;

receiving second information identifying second client data;

subsequent to receiving the second information, sending second GUI data to the client instance, wherein the second GUI data identifies the second subset of semantic items.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the client instance is associated with a security level and wherein the semantic items that are unavailable to the client instance include at least one semantic item that is unavailable based on the security level.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the client instance is associated with an enterprise role and wherein the semantic items that are unavailable to the client instance include at least one semantic item that is unavailable based on the enterprise role.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first subset includes semantic items supported by the first client data and wherein the second subset includes semantic items that are unsupported by the first client data.

19. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first subset of semantic items includes semantic items that are associated with measures that are computable based on the first client data, a security level of a user, and an enterprise role of the user.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein a semantic item in the set of semantic items is associated with at least one term, at least one question, at least one model, at least business measure, or any combination thereof.

17. (canceled)