Hierarchical Performance Metric Visualization Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
In complex environments, such as combat or organizational settings, there is a need to effectively visualize and analyze performance metrics across different levels of a system to quickly understand how entities perform against established thresholds, especially in real-time, while also predicting operational performance from technical data.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a visualization and analysis subsystem, a verification and evaluation subsystem, and an adaptive learning system that trains on technical performance data to predict operational performance, using a distributed database to collect and correlate instrumented data, and provides visualizations on an interface that illustrate performance against adjustable thresholds, allowing for hierarchical and time-synchronized views.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If performance metrics are visualized across multiple hierarchical levels in real-time, then system monitoring capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the complex performance monitoring task into multiple hierarchical levels (e.g., individual entity level, group level, system level). Each level visualizes metrics appropriate to its scope, allowing operators to drill down from high-level summaries to detailed views without overwhelming complexity at any single level.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces hierarchical dimensioning to the visualization system, where data is organized and displayed across multiple levels of abstraction. This dimensional organization allows complex performance data to be presented in a structured manner that reduces perceived complexity while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capability.
2Measurement precision
If multiple verification and evaluation subsystems operate in parallel to provide comprehensive data, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple verification and evaluation subsystems are merged into a unified visualization framework. The subsystems operate in parallel to collect and process data from different perspectives, but their outputs are integrated into a single coherent display that shows performance metrics without requiring operators to manage multiple separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The visualization subsystem is designed to handle data from multiple verification and evaluation sources through a universal interface. This multi-functional capability allows the same visualization infrastructure to process and display metrics from diverse subsystems, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining measurement precision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If performance thresholds are made adjustable in real-time, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Performance thresholds are implemented as dynamic, adjustable parameters rather than fixed values. The interface allows operators to modify thresholds in real-time based on changing operational requirements, with the visualization automatically updating to reflect new threshold levels. This dynamic capability provides adaptability while maintaining ease of use through intuitive controls.
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AI summary
Various embodiments associated with an interface that displays a visualization are described. In a combat or other environment, a great deal of information can be made available. In addition, this information can be compared against a metric of performance. This metric of performance could be qualitative or quantitative. In a complex environment, a relatively large amount of information can be gathered and it can be beneficial to produce an interface that enables a user to quickly understand the information with specific emphasis on how an entity related to the information is performing against the metric. The interface can include various features, such as time controls that allows for playback of previous information, measures of performance, and a structured tree view that illustrates hierarchical relationships of elements.