Hierarchical live graphs for performance data display

• US 9,389,981 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Milirud, Michael, Brewster, Eric D., Teeuwen, Nathan
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Molina, Hugo
• Application Number:
  US13/612,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20140075380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,399 Days
• Field of Search: 715/810
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment

Abstract

A system performance analysis user interface includes a thumbnail portion and an analysis view portion. One or more performance indicator thumbnails and/or data source thumbnails are displayed in the thumbnail portion. Each performance indicator thumbnail displays a live graph identifying performance data of an associated one of multiple performance indicators, and each data source thumbnail displays a live graph of performance of an associated data source. Additional data regarding one or more data sources, such as contribution to usage of the data source by each of multiple contributors, is displayed in the analysis view portion.

Claims

1. A method implemented in a computing device, the method comprising:

displaying, in a first portion of a computing device performance analysis user interface, multiple user-selectable performance indicator thumbnails, each performance indicator thumbnail being associated with one of multiple performance indicators of the computing device and displaying a live graph identifying performance data for the associated one of the multiple performance indicators;

displaying, in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface and in response to user selection of a performance indicator thumbnail associated with a performance indicator, one or more data source thumbnails associated with the performance indicator, each of the one or more data source thumbnails displaying a live graph of performance data of an associated data source and being user-selectable to cause information to be displayed in a second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface;

displaying, in the second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface and in response to user selection of a data source thumbnail, additional data identifying one or more contributors to usage of a particular data source, the particular data source being the data source associated with the selected data source thumbnail;

receiving a user indication, input via the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface, of a portion of time; and

displaying an identification by simultaneously highlighting the portion of time in each live graph of performance data of the associated data source and each one of the multiple performance indicator thumbnails in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface and each of the additional data identifying one or more contributors to usage of a particular data source in the second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying in the first portion the one or more data source thumbnails concurrently with the one or more performance indicator thumbnails such that a user can visually ascertain which data source thumbnails are associated with which performance indicator thumbnails.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, each performance indicator thumbnail displaying a live graph identifying performance data for the associated performance indicator, and each data source thumbnail displaying a live graph of performance data of the associated data source, the data source being a component or resource of the computing device.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising synchronizing performance data displayed in a graph of the second portion, in a graph of one of the performance indicator thumbnails, and in a graph of one of the data source thumbnails.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying in the second portion the additional data identifying one or more contributors to usage of the particular data source during the portion of time.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, the multiple performance indicators including a computation performance indicator, a storage performance indicator, and a memory performance indicator.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying, in an additional window and in response to a finger or object hovering over one of the one or more data source thumbnails, additional data identifying contribution to usage of a particular data source by each of multiple contributors, the particular data source being the data source associated with the one of the one or more data source thumbnails.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the receiving the user selection of the portion of time comprises receiving a user input that is a gesture.

9. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the additional data identifying one or more contributors to usage of a particular data source further comprises identifying how the one or more contributors are contributing.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein each of the multiple performance indicators of the computing device is associated with a different color.

11. A method as recited in claim 10, wherein for one of the multiple performance indicators associated with a particular color, the performance indicator thumbnail associated with the one performance indicator is also associated with the particular color, and the data source thumbnails associated with the one performance indicator are also associated with the particular color.

12. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon multiple instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of the computing device, cause the one or more processors to;

display, in a first portion of a computing device performance analysis user interface, one or more user-selectable live data source thumbnails associated with one of multiple performance indicators of the computing device, each of the one or more user-selectable live data source thumbnails displaying a live graph of performance data of the associated data source;

display, in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface and concurrently with display of the one or more data source thumbnails, a user-selectable performance indicator thumbnail for each of the multiple performance indicators of the computing device, each performance indicator thumbnail displaying a live graph identifying performance data for the associated one of the multiple performance indicators;

display, responsive to receiving a notification of user-selection of one of the user-selectable live data source thumbnails, in a second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface concurrently with the first portion, an analysis view for a data source of the user-selected one of the one or more live data source thumbnails, the selection performed in the first portion of the device performance analysis user interface, the analysis view displaying contribution to the data source usage by each of multiple contributors, the analysis view being synchronized with the user-selected data source thumbnail;

receive a user indication, input via the first portion of the device performance analysis user interface, of a region of interest; and

display an identification by simultaneously highlighting the region of interest in each of the live graph of performance data of the associated data source and each of the live data source thumbnails associated with one of the multiple performance indicators of the computing device in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface and each of the analysis view for the data source of the one or more live data source thumbnails in the second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface.

13. A computing device as recited in claim 12, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to display, in the first portion of the device performance analysis user interface and concurrently with display of the one or more data source thumbnails, a user-selectable preset thumbnail, each preset thumbnail displaying a graph identifying performance for an attribute of a user-selected one of the one or more data source thumbnails.

14. A computing device as recited in claim 12, the multiple instructions further causing the one or more processors to update the graph of performance data displayed in each of the one or more data source thumbnails as the performance data changes over time while the device performance analysis user interface is displayed.

15. A computing device as recited in claim 12, wherein the user selection of the region of interest comprises a selection of a portion of time.

16. A computing device as recited in claim 12, further comprising displaying, in an additional window and in response to a finger or object hovering over one of the one or more data source thumbnails, additional data identifying contribution to usage of a particular data source by each of multiple contributors, the particular data source being the data source associated with the one of the one or more data source thumbnails.

17. A computing device as recited in claim 12, wherein identifying the region of interest comprises highlighting the region of interest.

18. A method implemented on a computing device, the method comprising:

displaying, in a first portion of a computing device performance analysis user interface, multiple user-selectable performance indicator thumbnails, each performance indicator thumbnail being associated with one of multiple performance indicators of the computing device and displaying a live graph identifying performance data for the associated one of the multiple performance indicators;

displaying, in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface and in response to user selection of a performance indicator thumbnail associated with a performance indicator, one or more data source thumbnails associated with the performance indicator, each of the one or more data source thumbnails displaying a graph of performance data of an associated data source;

displaying, in a second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface viewable concurrently with the first portion, an analysis view for a data source of a user-selected one of the one or more data source thumbnails, the data source selected through interaction in the first portion, the analysis view displaying contribution to the data source usage by each of multiple contributors, the analysis view being synchronized with the one or more data source thumbnails and with the multiple performance indicator thumbnails;

receiving a user indication, input via the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface, of multiple regions of interest; and

displaying an identification by simultaneously highlighting of each of the multiple regions of interest in each of the multiple performance indicator thumbnails in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface, each of the one or more data source thumbnails in the first portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface, and in a graph included in the analysis view for the data source in the second portion of the computing device performance analysis user interface.

19. A method as recited in claim 18, wherein the user identification of the multiple regions of interest is received via a time range displayed for the first portion.

20. A method as recited in claim 18, further comprising displaying, in the first portion of the device performance analysis user interface and concurrently with display of the one or more data source thumbnails, a user-selectable preset thumbnail, each preset thumbnail displaying a graph identifying performance for an attribute of a user-selected one of the one or more data source thumbnails.