Online Tool GUI Tiles for Cloud Analytics Exploration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in exploring and understanding how online tools within a cloud computing environment can be applied to their data to better understand customers and improve customer relationships, lacking a central location for visualization of tool outputs.

Innovation Solution

A system for generating and managing an online tool GUI that displays multiple tool tiles and main tiles, featuring previews of analytic capabilities, quality metrics, and navigation buttons, allowing users to explore and access integrated AI technologies like machine learning and predictive analytics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple online tools are provided in a cloud computing environment, then the analytic capabilities and functionality are improved, but the difficulty of exploration and understanding how to apply these tools increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalytic capabilitiesVSAvoiddifficulty of exploration
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex set of online tools into discrete, visually distinct tiles that can be individually explored. Each tile represents a specific tool or analytical capability, allowing users to navigate and understand tools in manageable units rather than facing a monolithic interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The graphical user interface acts as an intermediary layer between the user and the underlying online tools. The GUI provides previews, descriptions, and structured organization that mediates the complexity of the tools, making them more accessible and easier to understand without changing the tools themselves.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If comprehensive online tools are provided, then the potential output and insights are improved, but the lack of central location for visualization increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepotential outputVSAvoidcentral location for visualization
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple tool outputs and capabilities into a single centralized graphical interface. The GUI consolidates previews, quality metrics, and tool descriptions in one location, allowing users to visualize and compare potential outputs from different tools without navigating multiple separate systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The graphical user interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays tool previews, provides quality metrics, offers navigational access to tools, and presents insights. This multi-functional design creates a universal access point that handles various user needs in a single centralized location.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If AI technologies are integrated, then the analytic capabilities are improved, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalytic capabilitiesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates simplified visual copies or representations of complex AI tool outputs through previews displayed in the GUI. These previews replicate the essential characteristics and potential value of the full tool outputs without requiring users to interact with the complete, complex systems, thereby reducing perceived complexity while maintaining analytic capability demonstration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11592962B2Online tool graphical user interface with tiles
Publication Date: 2023.02.28 SALESFORCE INC
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AI summary

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating and managing an online tool GUI with tiles. An embodiment operates by causing the online tool GUI to be displayed responsive to a request to access the online tool GUI from a user. The online tool GUI includes: a first main tile including a use-case for a first online tool; a first use-case navigation button configured to generate, when selected, a request for the first main tile to be displayed within the online tool GUI; and a second use-case navigation button configured to generate, when selected, a request for a second main tile to be displayed within the online tool GUI. In response to a selection of the second use-case navigation button, the online tool GUI replaces the first main tile with the second main tile including a use-case for a second online tool.