Dashboard Component Rendering via API Library
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current user interface technologies for data storage systems require manual coding efforts to render dashboard components, such as tables and charts, which is time-consuming and lacks abstraction, making it difficult to manage updates and synchronization across multiple charts.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a library with an API to render user interface components, including automatic polling for updates, time frame management, and synchronization features, allowing for reusable code to handle tasks like data retrieval and visualization, thereby reducing manual coding and enhancing user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual coding is used to render dashboard components, then customization flexibility is improved, but development time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the dashboard rendering process into reusable component templates (e.g., table templates, chart templates) that can be independently configured and rendered. This allows developers to create once and reuse multiple times, reducing development time while maintaining customization through template parameters and configuration options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements template copying mechanisms where a dashboard component is rendered by copying a predefined template structure and populating it with specific data and configuration. This eliminates the need to manually code each dashboard from scratch, significantly reducing development time while preserving customization through template variables and configuration files.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple charts are rendered independently, then individual chart customization is improved, but synchronization complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent chart renderings into a unified dashboard component that handles synchronization automatically. The template system combines multiple chart configurations into a single renderable structure that shares common data sources and update mechanisms, reducing synchronization complexity while maintaining individual chart customization through template parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a template intermediary layer that mediates between data sources and multiple chart components. This intermediary automatically distributes data updates to all charts that depend on the same data source, enabling automatic synchronization without requiring complex manual coordination between individual charts.
3Ease of operation
If manual updates are implemented for dashboard data, then update control flexibility is improved, but polling efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic polling mechanisms within the template rendering system that automatically refresh dashboard components at configured intervals. This maintains update control flexibility through configurable polling periods while improving efficiency by automating the update process and reducing manual intervention requirements.
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AI summary
Techniques for rendering a user interface (UI) may include: issuing a first call to a library in accordance with an application programming interface (API) to render a first dashboard component of the UI, the API including a first plurality of input parameters specifying first metadata for the first component and first request parameters used to obtain information from a server to populate the first dashboard component with data; responsive to the first call, issuing a first set of one or more requests, from the library to the server in accordance with the first request parameters, to obtain first information used to populate the first dashboard component; receiving, by the library from the server, the first information; and rendering the first component in the UI. Rendering may include populating the first dashboard component with the first information.