RESPONSIVE LINE DISPLAY

• US 20160104305A1
• Filed: 03/23/2015
• Published: 04/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Bovet, Jean Elie, Kim, Yuseung
• Granted Patent: US 10,290,127 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

Some embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus for displaying line charts with responsive line thickness using a display screen of a mobile computing system and include a processor, and one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a request to display a line chart on a display screen of a mobile computing system with the line chart having multiple line segments, determine density of information to be displayed with the line chart, and display the line chart with thickness of lines of the line chart corresponding to the determined density of information. The thickness of the line segments of the line chart is relatively thinner when the line chart includes higher density of information and relatively thicker when the line chart includes lower density of information.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request to display a line chart on a display screen of a mobile computing system, the line chart having connected line segments;

determining density of information associated with the line chart; and

displaying the line chart with the line segments having a thickness that corresponds to the determined density of the information on the display screen of the mobile computing system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is relatively thinner when the line chart includes higher density of information and relatively thicker when the line chart includes lower density of information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising updating the thickness of the line segments of the line chart based on detecting an update to the density of information of the line chart.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein there are two or more thickness levels, and wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is maintained at a first thickness level based on the updated density of information being within a first threshold window.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is updated from the first thickness level to a second thickness level based on the updated density of information being within a second threshold window.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising providing a mechanism to enable updating the density of information.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the update to the density of information of the line chart comprises an update to a range of information to be represented by the line chart, wherein a wider range corresponds to a higher density of information and a narrower range corresponds to a lower density of information.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining available screen space on the display screen of the mobile computing system to display the line chart; and

displaying the line chart with the line segments having a thickness that corresponds to the determined available screen space on the display screen of the mobile computing system.

9. An apparatus for displaying line charts, the apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

receive a request to display a line chart on a display screen of a mobile computing system, the line chart having connected line segments;

determine density of information to be displayed with the line chart;

determine available screen space on the display screen of the mobile computing system; and

display the line chart with thickness of line segments of the line chart corresponding to the determined density of information and the determined available screen space on the display screen of the mobile computing system.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is relatively thinner when the line chart includes higher density of information and relatively thicker when the line chart includes lower density of information.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising instructions to cause the processor to update the thickness of the line segments of the line chart based on detecting an update to the density of information.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein there are two or more thickness levels, and wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is maintained at a first thickness level based on the updated density of information being within a first threshold window.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is updated from the first thickness level to a second thickness level based on the updated density of information being within a second threshold window.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising instructions to cause the processor to provide a mechanism to enable updating the density of information.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the instructions to cause the processor to update the density of information comprises instructions to cause the processor to update a range of information to be represented by the line chart, wherein a wider range corresponds to a higher density of information and a narrower range corresponds to a lower density of information.

16. A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for display line charts, which instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

receive a request to display a line chart on a screen of a mobile computing system, the line chart having connected line segments;

determine density of information to be displayed with the line chart; and

display, on the display screen of the mobile computing system, the line chart with thickness of line segments of the line chart corresponding to the determined density of information.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is relatively thinner when the line chart includes higher density of information and relatively thicker when the line chart includes lower density of information.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, further comprising instructions to cause the processor update the thickness of the line segments of the line chart based on detecting an update to the density of information.

19. The machine-readable medium apparatus of claim 18, wherein there are two or more thickness levels, and wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is maintained at a first thickness level based on the updated density of information being within a first threshold window.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the thickness of the line segments of the line chart is updated from the first thickness level to a second thickness level based on the updated density of information being within a second threshold window.