CREATION, SHARING AND EMBEDDING OF INTERACTIVE CHARTS

• US 20150237085A1
• Filed: 02/23/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: iCharts LLC
• Original Assignee: iCharts, Inc.
• Inventors: Duncker, Seymour, Montgomery, Tyron
• Granted Patent: US 9,979,758 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Systems and methods for generating and sharing interactive charts are described. The interactive charts are generated in an online portal that allows users to customize the interactive features of the chart. An online portal may also be provided to allow users to automatically embed interactive chart(s) in another website without reprogramming the code of the website each time the interactive chart(s) are changed or new interactive chart(s) are added.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a selection from a first website of an interactive chart from a plurality of interactive charts, wherein the selection is responsive to the dragging and dropping of the interactive chart from the plurality of charts into a chart box folder;

providing a generation interface at the first website;

generating the interactive chart according to information received at the generation interface;

automatically displaying the selected interactive chart on a second website using a data feed from the first website following the dragging and dropping selection; and

transmitting the generated interactive chart to the second website using the data feed, wherein the generated interactive chart is;

embedded in a chart box on a second website,

rendered and displayed on the second website without re-accessing the generation interface at the first website, and

subsequently re-rendered at the second website according to user input without re-accessing the generation interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated interactive chart is rendered and re-rendered using code in a flash file.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a plurality of interactive charts embedded in a plurality of chart boxes on the second website

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the chart is rendered and re-rendered at the second website without updating a software program installed on and executed by a processor out of a memory at the second website.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive chart is embedded in an electronic document.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the electronic document is at least one of a portable document format (PDF), a Microsoft word, a power point format/extension (PPT), and a Microsoft word (DOC) electronic document.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive chart is shared with one or more registered users.

14. The non-transitory computer readable data storage medium of claim 1, wherein the interactive chart is shared with one or more registered users.

8. A non-transitory computer readable data storage medium having embodied thereon a program executed by a processor to perform a method for generating interactive charts, the method comprising:

receiving a selection from a first website of an interactive chart from a plurality of interactive charts, wherein the selection is responsive to the dragging and dropping of the interactive chart from the plurality of charts into a chart box folder;

providing a generation interface at the first website;

generating the interactive chart according to information received at the generation interface;

automatically displaying the selected interactive chart on a second website using a data feed from the first website following the dragging and dropping selection; and

transmitting the generated interactive chart to the second website using the data feed, wherein the generated interactive chart is;

embedded in a chart box on a second website,

rendered and displayed on the second website without re-accessing the generation interface at the first website, and

subsequently re-rendered at the second website according to user input without re-accessing the generation interface.

9. The non-transitory computer readable data storage medium of claim 8, wherein the generated interactive chart is rendered and re-rendered using code in a flash file.

10. The non-transitory computer readable data storage medium of claim 8, further comprising displaying a plurality of interactive charts embedded in a plurality of chart boxes on the second website

11. The non-transitory computer readable data storage medium of claim 8, wherein the chart is rendered and re-rendered at the second website without updating a software program installed on and executed by a processor out of a memory at the second website.

12. The non-transitory computer readable data storage medium of claim 8, wherein the interactive chart is embedded in an electronic document.

13. The non-transitory computer readable data storage medium of claim 12, wherein the electronic document is at least one of a portable document format (PDF), a Microsoft word, a power point format/extension (PPT), and a Microsoft word (DOC) electronic document.

15. A system for generating interactive charts, the system comprising:

a computer network interface that;

transmits instructions to a user computing device to display a user interface at the user computing device,

receives a first transmission from the user computing device that includes a selection responsive to the dragging and dropping of an interactive chart from a plurality of interactive charts into a chart box folder in the user interface displayed at the user computing device,

receives a second transmission including interactive chart generation information from the user computing device,

a memory that stores the received chart generation information; and

a processor executing instructions in the memory that generates the selected interactive chart according to the chart generation information stored in the memory, the generated selected interactive chart transmitted to a website over the computer network interface, the transmitted generated selected interactive chart embedded in a chart box on the website for rendering and subsequent re-rendering without the user interface.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein plurality of interactive charts are transmitted over the computer network interface for display on the website.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the interactive chart is embedded in an electronic document.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the electronic document is at least one of a portable document format (PDF), a Microsoft word, a power point format/extension (PPT), and a Microsoft word (DOC) electronic document.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the interactive chart is transmitted over the computer network interface to one or more registered users.