BI Interface Content Filtering via User Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional Business Intelligence (BI) enterprise applications are time-consuming and require detailed user knowledge of database architecture, leading to inefficient information access and untimely content delivery, which inhibits informed decision-making in mobile enterprise environments.
Innovation Solution
A method that provides a user-friendly interface for selective retrieval, display, and interaction with content, including visualizations with multiple data dimensions, allowing users to rate usefulness, dismiss, and share visualizations, which affects subsequent query search results and content filtering based on user feedback and context information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional BI enterprise applications are used, then data analysis capabilities are provided, but user knowledge of database architecture is required and information access becomes time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the system with UI controls) between the user and the database architecture. This intermediary automatically handles query formulation, data retrieval, and result presentation, eliminating the need for users to understand database schemas while delivering information timely through automated processes
2Ease of operation
If data specialists prepare reports manually, then customized content is delivered, but the process is time-consuming and requires detailed technical expertise
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by allowing users to directly interact with data through intuitive UI controls without requiring data specialists. Users can formulate queries, select visualizations, and retrieve customized reports independently, eliminating the manual report preparation process while maintaining customization capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of manual report preparation by data specialists with an automated computational system. The system automatically processes user queries, retrieves data, applies filters, and generates visualizations through software algorithms, dramatically increasing content delivery speed while reducing technical expertise requirements
3Loss of information
If multiple visualizations with different data dimensions are provided, then comprehensive data understanding is enabled, but interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex data presentation into multiple distinct UI controls, each responsible for a specific visualization type or data dimension. This segmentation allows comprehensive data exploration while keeping each individual control simple and intuitive, managing overall interface complexity through modular organization
Data Source
AI summary
An example system and method for selectively conveying content via User Interface (UI) display screen sections of Business Intelligence (BI) software and for facilitating user interaction therewith, e.g., so as to impart usefulness or preference ratings thereto, which can then affect subsequently displayed content. An example method includes providing one or more UI controls enabling a user to provide an input query and to interact with resulting content (i.e., query results, also called search results), where the user interaction with the content provides information (e.g., context information) indicative of a usefulness or preference rating pertaining to the content; thereby enabling modifications to subsequently retrieved content in accordance with the usefulness or preference rating(s). Such rating(s) may be aggregated from plural users of an associated software application. Additional UI controls may provide options to selectively share relevant retrieved content with other users, such as nearby users that have the appropriate permissions to view the shared content.