Gesture Navigation for Analytic Data Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
User interfaces in enterprise applications, particularly those handling analytical data, often lack support for gestures due to their complexity and limited screen size on mobile devices, making navigation and interaction inefficient.
Innovation Solution
Implementing computer-implemented methods and systems that enable gestures for navigating analytic data by receiving data values, preparing presentations, and identifying UI operations based on user interactions, allowing for features like comparative analysis, filtering, sorting, and zooming within the user interface without requiring additional data from the server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If gestures are implemented in enterprise applications for navigating analytical data, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gesture recognition layer as an intermediary between the user and the analytical data navigation system. This layer captures touch inputs, interprets gesture patterns, and translates them into standard navigation commands, thereby improving ease of operation while managing complexity through abstraction rather than direct implementation throughout the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The gesture system is designed to provide multiple functions through a single interaction mechanism. The same gesture interface handles navigation, filtering, sorting, and data selection across different views and data types, reducing the need for separate controls and simplifying the overall user interface architecture.
2Productivity
If gestures are supported in enterprise applications, then productivity is improved, but ease of manufacture worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-defining gesture patterns and their corresponding operations during the application development phase. Common navigation and data manipulation tasks are configured with standardized gesture mappings, allowing for rapid deployment and reducing the manufacturing complexity of custom gesture implementations for each enterprise application.
3Speed
If analytical data navigation is enhanced with gestures, then speed of interaction is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the gesture recognition and interpretation functionality into a separate, modular component that can operate independently from the core data processing and display systems. This extraction allows for optimized gesture handling that improves interaction speed while containing complexity in a dedicated module rather than distributing it throughout the entire system.
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AI summary
The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for providing features in a user interface supporting gestures for navigating analytic data. A client device prepares a presentation including, for each data value, a data value display element and an association between the data value display element and a display location in a display area. User interaction information is received identifying a user interaction with the presentation of the data values and a user interaction location in the display area in which the user interaction occurred. A UI operation is identified to apply to the data values based on associations between the data value display elements and the display location. Identification is based on the received user interaction information. An updated presentation of the data values is prepared using the UI operation on the set of data values. The preparing occurs without obtaining additional data values from a server.