Security Event GUI Layout for Fast Priority Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional security systems often present sensor data in clunky interfaces without indicating the urgency of events, making it difficult for users to quickly identify and address life-threatening or urgent security issues.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface (GUI) that organizes security event identifiers by priority and timestamp, using distinct shapes, sizes, and colors to highlight urgent events, allowing users to manage and resolve security incidents efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If security events are listed in conventional interfaces, then all sensor data can be displayed, but users cannot quickly identify urgent events and the interface becomes clunky and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making different parts of the interface have different visual properties based on event priority. High-priority events are displayed with prominent visual characteristics (larger size, brighter colors, different shapes) while low-priority events use subdued visual properties. This allows users to quickly identify urgent events without being overwhelmed by all data points, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive data display and quick urgent event identification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes color changes to encode event priority information. Different colors or color intensities represent different priority levels, allowing users to instantly distinguish between urgent and non-urgent events. This visual encoding system enables rapid scanning and identification of critical security events without requiring users to read detailed information, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining ease of operation.
2Loss of information
If all sensor data is displayed without prioritization, then complete information is available, but users face difficulty identifying which data needs immediate attention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments security events into different priority categories and displays them with distinct visual characteristics. By dividing the data into high-priority, medium-priority, and low-priority segments with different visual encodings (size, color, shape), the system maintains complete information availability while making it easy to detect and identify critical events. Users can scan the segmented display and immediately locate urgent events without difficulty.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds visual dimensions (size, color, shape) to encode priority information beyond the basic data content. This dimensional enrichment allows users to detect event criticality at a glance by perceiving visual differences rather than reading text descriptions. The additional visual dimensions make critical event identification straightforward while preserving all underlying security data.
3Quantity of substance
If conventional listing interfaces are used, then data can be presented, but the interface becomes clunky and does not direct user attention to critical events
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes visual parameters (size, color, shape) of event representations based on priority level. High-priority events are displayed with larger size, more intense colors, and distinctive shapes, while low-priority events use smaller, subtler visual parameters. This parameter variation allows comprehensive data display without creating a clunky interface, as the visual hierarchy naturally guides user attention and simplifies the perceived complexity.
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AI summary
Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for managing security events via a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising receiving an indication of a first security event occurring in an environment, determining a priority value of the first security event, and creating a first identifier of the first security event, wherein the first identifier is a visual icon of a given shape. The implementations further include assigning a size and color to the first identifier of the first security event based on the priority value and generating, for display on the GUI, the first identifier of the first security event, wherein the GUI is configured to display identifiers of one or more security events in a selectable layout of a plurality of selectable layouts, wherein selection of the first identifier generates a panel of selectable actions that can be executed to address the first security event.