Grouped Data Attributes Across Multiple User Interface Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content manager programs face limitations in displaying all data sets across multiple user interface views due to visual size constraints, requiring users to repeatedly search for and select data when switching between views.
Innovation Solution
A method to create groups of related attributes, allowing users to select and display these groups in different views, with each group represented on the user interface, enabling seamless transition and visualization across various views without losing context.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all data sets are displayed across multiple user interface views, then data visibility and context maintenance are improved, but visual size constraints and interface complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the data set into multiple groups that can be displayed across different views. Each group represents a subset of data that can be independently managed and displayed, allowing the system to maintain data visibility without overwhelming the user interface with all data simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces the dimension of multiple views to display data groups. Instead of trying to display all data in a single view, the system creates multiple views where each view can display different groups of data, effectively using the view dimension to resolve the space limitation.
2Ease of operation
If users search through lists to select data for evaluation, then data selection capability is maintained, but time efficiency and user productivity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-organizes data into groups before the user needs to select them. This preliminary organization allows users to directly access grouped data without having to search through unorganized lists, significantly reducing the time required for data selection while maintaining ease of operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If data is re-organized when switching between views, then view-specific customization is improved, but data context continuity and user efficiency worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates groups of data that serve multiple views simultaneously. Each group can be displayed across different views, allowing the same organized data structure to fulfill the customization needs of multiple views without requiring separate organization for each view, thus maintaining data context continuity while providing view adaptability.
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AI summary
A method for displaying attributes of a computer system. Displaying, on a user interface, a representation for each of the plurality of groups. Receiving a selection of one or more of the plurality of groups to display, based on a selection of one or more corresponding representations of the displayed representations. Displaying, in a first view on the user interface, the one or more related attributes of each of the selected one or more groups. Receiving a request to display the one or more related attributes of each of the selected one or more groups, in a second view on the user interface, wherein the second view depicts attributes in an alternative manner than the first view. Displaying, in the second view on the user interface, the one or more related attributes of each of the selected one or more groups.