Method and system for data selection and display

• US 8,132,101 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Issued: 03/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Buck, Schuyler, Bush, Jason, Yee, Wendy
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US11/999,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20090150440A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,551 Days
• Field of Search: 715/503, 715/708, 715/810, 715/825, 715/835, 715/844
• US Class Current: 715/708
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method and apparatus for concurrently displaying sets of data related to a medical condition, including a feature which enables the user to select one or more of the data sets for emphasized or more prominent display relative to the other data set(s).

Claims

1. A method of displaying data, including the steps of:

enabling a user to select a first data set;

displaying the first data set within a region of a graph on a display, the graph including a first y-axis disposed at a first position of the graph and associated with the first data set, the first y-axis comprising a plurality of coordinates indicating a first unit of measure;

enabling the user to select a second data set;

displaying the second data set within the region of the graph on the display, the graph including a second y-axis associated with the second data set, the second y-axis disposed at a second position of the graph and comprising a plurality of coordinates indicating a second unit of measure distinct from the first unit of measure, the second position being distinct from the first position, the step of displaying the second data set performed concurrently with the step of displaying the first data set;

enabling the user to select one of the first data set and the second data set as a prominent data set; and

responding to the user selection of the prominent data set by de-emphasizing the other of the first data set and the second data set not selected as the prominent data set, the first data set and the second data set remaining concurrently displayed within the region of the graph during the step of responding,

wherein the region of the graph including the first y-axis overlaps with the region of the graph including the second y-axis.

2. The method of claim 1, further including the step of responding to the selection of the prominent data set by emphasizing the prominent data set.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the second data sets have a common x-axis.

4. The method of claim 1, further including the step of de-emphasizing the y-axis associated with the other of the first data set and the second data set not selected as the prominent data set.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of enabling the user to select a first data set includes the step of displaying a dropdown menu of available data sets.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data set relates to diabetes.

7. A system for displaying data, including:

a data input component configured to permit user selection of a first data set and a second data set;

a processor in communication with the data input component, the processor being configured to execute software instructions relating to the display of the first and second data sets; and

a display which, under control of the processor, generates a screen including a graph area that concurrently displays the selected first and second data sets within the graph area, the graph area including a first y-axis disposed at a first position and associated with the first data set, the first y-axis comprising a first plurality of coordinates representing a first unit of measure, the graph area also including a second y-axis disposed at a second position and associated with the second data set, the second y-axis comprising a second plurality of coordinates representing a second unit of measure distinct from the first unit of measure, the graph area including the first y-axis overlapping with the graph area including the second y-axis and the second position being distinct from the first position,

wherein the screen further includes a data settings area having options selectable using the data input component corresponding to the selected first and second data sets, the processor responding to selection of a first option by causing the display to change the prominence of one of the first and second data sets relative to the other of the first and second data sets while concurrently displaying the first and second data sets within the graph area.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the change in prominence of one of the first and second data sets comprises one of the first and second data sets being emphasized relative to the other of the first and second data set.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the change in prominence of one of the first and second data sets comprises the other of the first and second data sets being de-emphasized relative to the other of the first and second data set.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the options are radio buttons and the data input component is a pointing device.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the graph area includes an x-axis that corresponds to both of the first and second data sets.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor responds to selection of the first option by changing the prominence of the first y-axis relative to the second y-axis.

13. The system of claim 7, further including a memory configured to store the software instructions and the first and second data sets.

20. The system of claim 7, wherein first unit of measure comprises a blood glucose value and the second unit of measure comprises an insulin value.

14. A method of displaying data performed by the execution of a plurality of encoded instructions on a machine readable program by a computing device, the method including the steps of

enabling a user to select at least two data sets;

concurrently displaying the data sets graphically within a graph area on a display, the graph area including a first y-axis associated with a first data set and disposed at a first location, and a second y-axis associated with a second data set and disposed at a second location distinct from the first location, the graph area including the first y-axis overlapping with the graph area including the second y-axis, the first y-axis comprising a plurality of coordinates representing a first unit of measure and the second y-axis comprising a plurality of coordinates representing a second unit of measure distinct from the first unit of measure;

enabling the user to select one of the data sets as a prominent data set; and

changing the prominence of the prominent data set relative to at least one other data set, the step of changing performed while concurrently displaying the data sets graphically on the display.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the changing step includes the step of increasing the prominence of the prominent data set relative to the at least one other data set.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the changing step includes the step of de-emphasizing the at least one other data set.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein a single x-axis is associated with the at least two data sets.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of enabling the user to select one of the data sets as a prominent data set includes the step of displaying a user-selectable option for each of the at least two data sets.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein one of the at least two data sets includes blood glucose data.