Guided page navigation

• US 9,229,607 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2013
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dimensional Insight Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Dimensional Insight Incorporated
• Inventors: Powers, Frederick A., Zanarotti, Stanley R., Clark, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parker, Jeanette J
• Application Number:
  US14/074,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/26, 705/28, 707/600
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/80 Management or planning

Abstract

Configuring a set of guided documents for operation of a business activity based on a workflow for the activity, industry expertise, and a plurality of models of source data that is relevant to the business activity, wherein points of entry to access the guided documents are organized around one or more industry-specific data dimensions.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an interactive electronic display;

a data set including data from a plurality of data domains,

each of the plurality of data domains derived from a distinct data model,

each distinct data model adapted to generate a single data domain from a plurality of disparate data sources that are used in a workflow for a particular business activity,

the plurality of disparate data sources consisting of internal data sources associated with operating the business and external data source,

wherein the internal data sources comprise at least two sources selected from flat files, spreadsheets, data warehouses, SQL databases, non-standard formatted data, legacy systems, transactional systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and

wherein the external data sources comprise at least two sources selected from third party feeds, market data, end-user data, state data, county data, regional data, demo data and legacy systems, ERP systems, spreadsheets, data warehouses, SQL databases, suppliers, distributors, government entities, product information, state laws and regulations, federal laws and regulations, local laws and regulations, customer information, purchase history, news, and industry guidelines,

the data set having a plurality of core dimensions, at least one of the plurality of core dimensions identifies a data type within the plurality of data domain for continuing the workflow for the particular business activity,

wherein at least one of the plurality of core dimensions is a common core dimension to at least two of the plurality of data domains for the workflow for the particular business activity;

a plurality of guided pages that include information predetermined to be pertinent to the continuation of the workflow for the particular business activity to facilitate direct navigation among the plurality of data domains in response to user selection of one of a plurality of displayable actionable elements that are each associated with at least one of the plurality of core dimensions,

the plurality of displayable actionable elements presented in a referring guided page associated with the workflow for the particular business activity,

wherein user interaction via the interactive electronic display with one of the plurality of displayable actionable elements in the referring guided page results in presenting a predetermined next guided page with which the displayable actionable element is associated and representative of one of the data domains that is different from the data domain represented in the referring guided page,

wherein the next guided page is further based on a core dimension associated with the one of the displayable actionable elements, the core dimension associated with the one of the displayable actionable elements common to at least one of the data domains represented in the next guided page and the data domain represented in the referring guided page,

guided page storage that include directory structure and data directory information that facilitate navigation among the plurality of guided pages for the presentation on the interactive electronic display; and

guided page data structure information that facilitates configuring information derived from the data in the data set for presentation on the interactive electronic display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein

the displayable actionable elements are determined based on an industry knowledge navigation map that is based on the workflow for the particular business activity, and

wherein the next guided page is based on the industry knowledge directed navigation map and a record of pages that a user has previously viewed.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein data from any of the plurality of data domains that have a common core dimension are accessed via an actionable element of a guided page that comprises data of any of the plurality of data domains that have the common core dimension.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data domains is derived from a plurality of distinct data models.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the distinct data models comprise industry-specific data models.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of guided pages comprises groups of pages of a business presentation, navigation among the groups of pages being based on a core dimension that is common to the groups of pages.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the pages in a group are independent of any specific data domain.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a result of user interaction with one of the displayable actionable elements is predetermined at least in part by a user predetermined to be an industry-specific expert.

9. The system of claim 1,

further comprising guided page data structure information that facilitates configuring information derived from the data in the data set,

wherein the data set includes calculated summaries of data that correspond to the plurality of core dimensions suitable for presentation in a guided page based on the guided page data structure information and

non-summarized data that is processed into calculated summaries to comply with the data structure information in response to a user interaction with one of the displayable actionable elements that causes the non-summarized data to be presented in a guided page.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of core dimensions comprises industry-specific core dimensions.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein user interactions with one of the displayable actionable elements results in selection of a content item selected from the group consisting of documentation, videos, manuals, sell sheets, images of hard copy documents including purchase orders, shipping documents, and product images.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the data set comprises one or more time-based summaries of data associated with at least one core dimension.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more time-based summaries are organized into distinct model-based data repositories.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein user interaction with one of the displayable actionable elements results in accessing a document link that facilitates presenting a document that is related to a data domain with which the actionable element is associated.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing the plurality of guided pages between a tablet of a tablet-based interactive electronic display and a server based on guided page cache tags that are exchanged between the tablet and the server.