Mobile tasks

• US 10,795,723 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2017
• Issued: 10/06/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Palantir Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Palantir Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Bills, Cooper, Fackler, Steven, Sun, Zennard, Wichrowska, Maja, Villarreal, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Diem K
• Application Number:
  US15/646,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20170308402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,184 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Activities related to data analyses are managed in part using task objects representing tasks that need to be performed. In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving a first request to generate a task object that describes a task; responsive to the first request, generating the task object, the task object being a data structure that comprises values for task object fields that represent attributes of the task; identifying, in a repository of data objects, a particular data object to associate with the task object; determining that a first field of the task object fields corresponds to a second field of the particular data object, the second field of the particular data object having a particular value; and assigning the first field of the task object to the particular value of the corresponding second field. In another embodiment, task objects are associated with geolocation data, and mapped or otherwise presented accordingly.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory storing one or more data objects and instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of;

generating task objects and causing the task objects to be stored in the memory;

attaching particular data objects stored in the memory to particular generated task objects;

identifying a first field of a first task object, of the task objects, that corresponds to a second field of a first data object, of the data objects, the first data object having been attached to the first task object, the second field storing a particular value;

assigning the first field of the first task object to the particular value of the second field of the first data object;

determining that the particular value in the first field of the task object has changed and, in response, updating the particular value in the second field of the first data object.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first field and the second field are both one of:

a location attribute, object title, object description, or assigned user or user group.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause performance of:

receiving location input that identifies geographic locations to associate with the task objects, and to store information describing the geographic locations in association with the task objects;

displaying task icons representing the task objects on a map based on the stored information describing the geographic locations.

4. The system of claim 1,

wherein the task objects conform to a task object data structure type, the task object data structure type defining task object fields of the task objects, including the first field;

wherein the data objects conform to particular data object structure types that define particular fields of the data objects, the particular data object structure types being different from the task object data structure type;

wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause performance of determining that the second field corresponds to the first field by comparing first definition data for the task object data structure type to second definition data for a first data object structure type to which the first data object conforms.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause performance of:

receive input indicating that tasks corresponding to particular task objects have been completed;

responsive to input indicating that a first task corresponding to the first task object has been completed, and based on the first task object being attached to the first data object, automatically change a status field of the first data object.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause performance of:

displaying, on a map, a plurality of task icons representing a plurality of the task objects that have not been assigned to user objects, of the data objects, and displaying a plurality of user icons representing a plurality of the user objects;

receiving assignment inputs that drags particular user icons over particular task icons;

attaching particular user objects, corresponding to the particular user icons, to particular task objects, corresponding to the particular task icons, responsive to the assignment inputs.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause performance of:

displaying indications of distances between first locations associated with a plurality of the task objects and a second location associated with a particular user object, of the data objects;

responsive to input selecting a second task object from the plurality of the task objects, storing an association between the second task object and the particular user object.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause performance of:

determining that the first data object has been updated to store information describing a new geographic location;

responsive to the determining that the first data object has been updated, moving a first icon that represents the first task object to a new position on a map, the new position reflecting the new geographic location.

9. A method comprising:

receiving a first request to generate a task object that describes a task;

responsive to the first request, generating the task object, the task object being a data structure that comprises values for task object fields that represent attributes of the task;

identifying, in a repository of data objects, a particular data object to associate with the task object;

determining that a first field of the task object fields corresponds to a second field of the particular data object, the second field of the particular data object representing a location attribute having a particular value;

assigning, to the first field of the task object, the particular value of the corresponding second field;

determining that the particular value in the first field of the task object has changed and, in response, updating the particular value in the second field of the particular data object,

wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first field represents a location attribute, wherein the particular value is location information.

11. The method of claim 9,

determining that a third field of the task object fields corresponds to a fourth field of the particular data object,

wherein the third field and the fourth field are both one of:

an object title, object description, or an assigned user or user group;

assigning to the third field of the task object the particular value of the corresponding fourth field.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a second request to attach the particular data object to the task object;

generating a link between the task object and the particular data object;

wherein assigning the first field of the task object to the particular value of the corresponding second field occurs responsive to the second request.

13. The method of claim 9,

wherein the task object conforms to a task object data structure type, the task object data structure type defining the task object fields;

wherein the particular data object conforms to a particular data object structure type that defines particular fields of the particular data object, the particular data object structure type being different from the task object data structure type;

wherein determining that the second field corresponds to the first field comprises comparing first definition data for the task object data structure type to second definition data for the particular data object structure type.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving input indicating that the task corresponding to the task object is complete;

responsive to the input, based on the association between the task object and the particular data object, automatically changing a status field of the particular data object.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

identifying, in a repository of data objects, a second particular data object to associate with the task object;

determining that a third field of the task object fields corresponds to a fourth field of the second particular data object, the fourth field of the second particular data object having a second particular value;

assigning the third field of the task object to the second particular value of the corresponding fourth field.

16. A method comprising:

receiving a request to generate a task object that describes a task;

generating the task object responsive to the request;

storing an association between the task object and a particular data object, the particular data object storing different data than the task object;

determining that a first field in the task object corresponds to a second field of the particular data object, the second field of the particular data object having a particular value;

automatically copying the particular value of the corresponding second field to the first field of the task object;

determining that the particular value in the first field of the task object has changed and, in response, updating the particular value in the second field of the first particular data object;

wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving first input that identifies a first geographic location to associate with the task object;

storing information describing the first geographic location in association with the task object;

displaying a first icon representing the task object on a geographic map, the first icon placed on the geographic map at a point that corresponds to the stored information describing the first geographic location of the task object;

determining that the task object has been updated to store a second geographic location that is not the first geographic location;

moving the first icon on the geographic map to reflect the second geographic location.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying, on a map, a plurality of task icons representing a plurality of task objects that have not been assigned to user objects, the plurality of task icons including a first icon associated with the task object;

displaying a plurality of user icons representing the user objects;

receiving input that drags a particular user icon over the first icon;

storing an association between the task object and a particular user object represented by the particular user icon, the association indicating that the task object is assigned to the particular user object.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying, on the map, a plurality of task icons representing a plurality of task objects that have not been assigned to user objects, the plurality of task icons including a first icon associated with the task object;

displaying indications of distances between first locations associated with the plurality of the task objects and a second location associated with a particular user object;

responsive to input selecting the first icon, storing an association between the task object and the particular user object, the association indicating that the task object is assigned to the particular user object.