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Visualization of states of a process

  • US 9,141,507 B2
  • Filed: 12/23/2009
  • Issued: 09/22/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing a visualization of states of a process, comprising:

  • identifying a set of potential states that can occur during the process and a corresponding set of colors, each color in the set of colors corresponding to one of the potential states;

    establishing a fixed ordering for the set of colors;

    displaying a timeline graph including a plurality of colored vertical bars, wherein each colored vertical bar corresponds to a time interval of the process and includes at least one color selected from the set of colors based on at least one state occurring during the time interval corresponding to the vertical bar, wherein the plurality of colored vertical bars includes a set of multiple-color vertical bars that each include a plurality of colors appearing in a vertical order based on the fixed ordering, and wherein the at least one state occurring during each time interval varies over the time intervals and the at least one color included in each of the colored vertical bars correspondingly varies over the time intervals in the graph, and wherein the colors in each multi-color vertical bar represent only most prominent states occurring during the time interval corresponding to the multi-color vertical bar, and wherein the most prominent states for a first one of the time intervals are automatically selected from at least four states occurring during the first time interval based on time durations of the at least four states occurring during the first time interval,wherein the most prominent states for the first time interval include only two most prominent states, and wherein the two most prominent states have longer time durations than any other states occurring during the first time interval; and

    wherein the identifying, establishing, and displaying are performed by at least one processor.

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