User interface providing summary information or a status pane in a web analytics tool

• US 9,171,093 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2011
• Issued: 10/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Error, Brett Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): HASAN, SYED HAROON
• Application Number:
  US13/104,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276917A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,631 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system and method provide a summary comparison of data. The summary may compare filtered and unfiltered data or one set of filtered data to another. The system presents a status pane or window to a user in conjunction with filtered data that is dynamically updated to correspond to the data. A summary of the filtered data is available for display side by side with other filtered data or unfiltered data. The reports and summary are dynamically updated.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

performing, by one or more computing devices;

displaying in a parent display area a first report comprising content site visitation data;

filtering the content site visitation data based on a filter criterion;

displaying a plurality of filtered reports, each filtered report comprising at least a portion of the filtered content site visitation data in a first sub-display area of the parent display area;

displaying, simultaneously with the plurality of filtered reports, a comparison report in a second sub-display area of the parent display area that is separate and distinct from the first sub-display area, the comparison report, when displayed in the second sub-display area, at least partially overlaying a portion of at least one of the plurality of filtered reports, wherein the comparison report comprises at least a portion of unfiltered content site visitation data and at least a portion of the filtered content site visitation data;

in response to a second filter criterion, filtering the content site visitation data based on the second filter criterion;

updating a filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports based in part on the second filter criterion; and

displaying an updated comparison report comprising at least the portion of the unfiltered content site visitation data and an updated portion of the filtered content site visitation data.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving an input to filter the first report based on the filter criterion.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the filter criterion comprises two or more filter criterion and the filtering filters the content site visitation data based on the two or more filter criterion.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the two or more filters are combined as an AND operation.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the two or more filters are combined as an OR operation.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first report comprises a user-customized report built during a current session.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein displaying the comparison report occurs virtually instantaneous with receiving a user input to activate the comparison report.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein a first filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports comprises a first set of filtered content site visitation data corresponding to a first segment of the content site visitation data, and the comparison report comprises a second filtered report having a second set of filtered content site visitation data corresponding to a second segment of the content site visitation data.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein a first filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports comprises a first set of filtered content site visitation data corresponding to a first segment of the content site visitation data, and a second filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports comprises a second set of filtered content site visitation data corresponding to a second segment of the content site visitation data, and wherein the first filtered report and the second filtered report are each displayed concurrently in separate display areas of the first sub-display area of the parent display area that are visually distinct.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein each filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports corresponds to a unique dimension of the content site visitation data.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein each filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports comprises a data column, a filter column, at least one metric column, and a search field.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the filter criterion comprises a segment filter and wherein the second filter criterion is received in response to selection of a filter icon, the filter icon displayed in the first sub-display area in connection with at least one filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports.

13. A method comprising:

performing, by one or more computing devices;

displaying in a parent display area a first report comprising at least an unfiltered portion of content site visitation data;

displaying in the parent display area a second report comprising at least another unfiltered portion of the content site visitation data;

filtering the content site visitation data based on a filter criterion to produce filtered content visitation data;

displaying a plurality of filtered reports in a first sub-display area of the parent display area, each filtered report comprising at least a portion of the filtered content site visitation data;

displaying, simultaneously with the plurality of filtered reports, a comparison report in a second sub-display area of the parent display area separate and distinct from the first sub-display area, the comparison report, when displayed in the second sub-display area, at least partially overlaying a portion of at least one of the plurality of filtered reports, wherein the comparison report comprises at least a portion of the filtered content visitation data and at least a portion of the unfiltered content site visitation data from the second report;

in response to a second filter criterion, filtering the content site visitation data based on the second filter criterion;

updating a filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports based in part on the second filter criterion; and

displaying an updated comparison report comprising at least the portion of the unfiltered content site visitation data and an updated portion of the filtered content site visitation data.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the filtered content site visitation data comprises a filtered value for a given metric and the unfiltered content site visitation data comprises an unfiltered value for the given metric.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the comparison report is a report selected from the group consisting of a summary report, a totals report, a commerce report, a web traffic report, and a paths report.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein a first filtered report of the plurality of filtered reports comprises a first set of filtered content site visitation data corresponding to a first segment of the content site visitation data, and the comparison report comprises a second filtered report having a second set of filtered content site visitation data corresponding to a second segment of the content site visitation data.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions encoded thereon operable on a computerized device to perform processing comprising:

instructions for displaying in a parent display area a first report comprising content site visitation data;

instructions for filtering the content site visitation data based on a filter criterion;

instructions for displaying a plurality of adjusted reports comprising at least a portion of filtered content site visitation data in a first sub-display area of the parent display area;

instructions for displaying, simultaneously with the plurality of adjusted reports, a comparison report in a second sub-display area of the parent display area that is separate and distinct from the first sub-display area, the comparison report, when displayed in the second sub-display area, at least partially overlaying a portion of at least one of the plurality of adjusted reports, wherein the comparison report comprises at least a portion of unfiltered content site visitation data and at least a portion of the filtered content site visitation data;

instructions for filtering the content site visitation data based on a second filter criterion;

instructions for updating an adjusted report of the plurality of adjusted reports based in part on the second filter criterion; and

instructions for displaying an updated comparison report comprising at least the portion of the unfiltered content site visitation data and an updated portion of the filtered content site visitation data.

18. The non-transitory computer readable memory of claim 17, further comprising instructions for displaying the comparison report in response to receiving user input.

19. The non-transitory computer readable memory of claim 17, wherein at least one of the first sub-display area and the second sub-display area is at least one pop up window.

20. The non-transitory computer readable memory of claim 17, wherein the comparison report is displayed in a window adjacent to a first adjusted report of the plurality of adjusted reports.

21. The non-transitory computer readable memory of claim 17, wherein the comparison report comprises one or more reports selected from the group consisting of a summary report, a totals report, a commerce report, a web traffic report, and a paths report.