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20090198756 | REPRESENTATION OF DATA TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES FOR PARALLELIZATION - One or more operations are defined to be used against a repository of one or more items. One or more associations between each of the one or more items are also defined. A classification is associated with the one or more operations for an execution environment within a transformation graph, wherein the classification defines whether the operation can be executed in parallel or not in parallel with other operations. The operations are processed based on the classification. | 08-06-2009 |
20090210433 | Parallelizing Data Manipulation by Data Set Abstraction - A first request to access a first set of items is received, wherein each item is associated with one or more properties. A second request to access a second set of items is also received. A determination is made as to whether items from the first set are in the second set of items, and the sets are divided into one or more subsets based on the determining. Each of the one or more subsets is assigned to a respective thread, and the respective thread of the subset that does not contain items in the second request is processed. This way, individual subsets (i.e. data partitions) can be processed by multiple threads in parallel without having to synchronize them. | 08-20-2009 |
20090271419 | Dynamic Database Schemas for Highly Irregularly Structured or Heterogeneous Data - One or more data items of one or more types are received, wherein each data item is associated with one or more attributes, and wherein each attribute is associated with an attribute name and an attribute value. A key is calculated for each attribute, and a determination as to whether the key is located in a dictionary is made. The key is added to the dictionary based on the determination along with an attribute description, and a determination of a number of occurrences of one of the one or more items to the number of all the one or more items in a set is made. Based on this number of occurrences attributes are classified as either mandatory, expected or optional in the generated template for the corresponding info item type. | 10-29-2009 |
20100076931 | Recording Information About an Item - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer program product is tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium and includes instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for recording information about an item. The method includes assigning a unique identifier to an item in a repository, the item supporting versioning and being subject to a data model having no predefined schema for items. The method includes associating a first attribute with the unique identifier, the first attribute being part of the item and being configured for modification. The method includes associating the first attribute with a version number, wherein the versioning is supported without recording in the repository a time period when the first attribute is valid. | 03-25-2010 |
20110035391 | Uniform Data Model and API for Representation and Processing of Semantic Data - In some implementations, a method includes receiving a first data set that is stored using a first format, generating an info item based on the first data set, the info item representing an entity extracted from the first, data set, generating a delta item based on the first data set, the delta item including a reference to the into item and defining a context-based modification of the info item, generating a second data set in a second format comprising the into item and the delta item, and storing the second data set to the computer-readable storage medium. | 02-10-2011 |
20120110519 | GRAPHICAL MANIPULATION OF DATA OBJECTS - In an embodiment, a user input defining an enclosed, graphical shape on a video display is received. A number of graphical items are identified as being included within the enclosed, graphical shape. Here, each graphical item is displayed on the video display and represents a data object that has a number of properties. A property is extracted from the number of properties that the data objects have in common based on the identification. A number of other manipulation techniques are also described. | 05-03-2012 |
20120113015 | MULTI-INPUT GESTURE CONTROL FOR A DISPLAY SCREEN - Improved multi-input gesture control for a display screen is enabled by using a first screen input to determine control operations that result from a second screen input that is followed by a gesture. A gesture that corresponds to a path traced on a display screen may define a new screen input or manipulate existing screen objects depending on some specific feature of the path or the entirety of the path. | 05-10-2012 |
20120144326 | Graphical Layout of Semi-Structured Data - In an embodiment, a method is provided for organizing semi-structured data. In this method, the semi-structured data that have properties are accessed and rendered on a graphical user interface. A user input defining a first graphical layout of a first number of the semi-structured data is received. A second number of the semi-structured data is identified as having properties similar to the properties of the first number of the semi-structured data. A second graphical layout of the identified second number of the semi-structured data is then rearranged to match the first graphical layout. | 06-07-2012 |
20120169772 | FRACTAL WHITEBOARDING - In a system and a method, a first user input corresponding to a first graphical shape having first boundaries, a first size, and a first position is received on an initial virtual whiteboard having an infinite drawing area and occupying a display area of a user interface. In response to a first command, the first graphical shape is designated as a current virtual whiteboard by resizing the first graphical shape from the first size to a second size, with the second size being equal to the display area of the user interface, and with the first graphical shape having the first boundaries removed to effect an infinite drawing area within the first graphical shape. A second user input corresponding to a second graphical shape is received within the first graphical shape designated as the current virtual whiteboard. In response to a second command, the initial virtual whiteboard is designated as the current virtual whiteboard by restoring the first position and the first size of the first graphical shape within the initial virtual whiteboard and by resizing and re-positioning the second graphical shape to fit within the first graphical shape. | 07-05-2012 |
20130311463 | EXPLANATORY ANIMATION GENERATION - Various embodiments included herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software for explanatory animation generation. Some embodiments include receiving data representative of at least two data items, each data item to be presented as a node. Relationships between these data items are discovered in an interrelated dataset and the relationship is illustrated as a set of sequential nodes on a canvas. A text-script descriptive of each of the nodes is then generated. Finally, such embodiments include generating a visualization with a synchronized voiceover based on the sequence nodes and the text-script, the visualization including each node with a synchronized voiceover of each node. | 11-21-2013 |
20140040295 | Uniform Data Model and API for Representation and Processing of Semantic Data - In some implementations, a method includes receiving a first data set that is stored using a first format, generating an info item based on the first data set, the info item representing an entity extracted from the first data set, generating a delta item based on the first data set, the delta item including a reference to the info item and defining a context-based modification of the info item, generating a second data set in a second format comprising the info item and the delta item, and storing the second data set to the computer-readable storage medium. | 02-06-2014 |
20140062894 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING A TABLET DEVICE TO PROVIDE CONTEXTUAL INPUT TO A COMPUTING DEVICE - A tablet device provides contextual input to a computing device by using a touchscreen to display a context menu related to a location on a display screen of the computing device, accessing a selection from the context menu from the touchscreen, and sending values corresponding to the selection to the computing device. The touchscreen may alternatively enable user Input related to the context menu or touchpad functions. | 03-06-2014 |
20140095500 | EXPLANATORY ANIMATION GENERATION - Various embodiments included herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software for explanatory animation generation. Some embodiments include receiving data representative of at least two data items, each data item to be presented as a node. Relationships between these data items are discovered in an interrelated dataset and the relationship is illustrated as a set of sequential nodes on a canvas. A text-script descriptive of each of the nodes is then generated. Finally, such embodiments include generating a visualization with a synchronized voiceover based on the sequence nodes and the text-script, the visualization including each node with a synchronized voiceover of each node. | 04-03-2014 |
20150058771 | VISUALIZATION AND NAVIGATION OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS - A system stores visual content, and displays the visual content on a display unit in an undistorted, overview projection. The system receives input from a user to focus on a topic in the undistorted, overview projection, and transforms the undistorted, overview projection into a focused display showing the topic selected by the user and content related to the topic selected by the user in a continuous sequence of increasingly distorted projections. In the focused display, the content that is not related to the topic selected by the user does not move on the focused display, and the content that is related to the topic selected by the user moves towards the topic selected by the user on the focused display. | 02-26-2015 |
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20150324391 | DATA VISUALIZATION USING LEVEL OF DETAIL MAGNIFICATION - A visualization engine may provide, on a screen, a visual display of an object, the object being associated with object data having a data display size smaller than a visual threshold and therefore not displayed on the screen. The visualization engine may include a request handler configured to receive a magnification request to magnify the object at a magnification speed, a threshold manager configured to determine a data threshold at which fetching of the object data must be initiated to ensure receipt thereof prior to the visual threshold being reached, and an object comparator configured to initiate fetching of the object data, based on the visual threshold, the data threshold, and the magnification speed. The visualization engine may then display the object data within the object upon magnification of the object meeting the visual threshold. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324453 | REPRESENTATION OF DATASETS USING VIEW-SPECIFIC VISUAL BUNDLERS - A request handler may receive a request for a visualization of plurality of data elements, the request including a common property. A property filter may filter the plurality of data elements based on the common property, to obtain data subsets, and a template selector may access grouping criterion linking the common property with at least one layout template providing a geometric representation of the common property. A layout engine may then generate, based on the at least one layout template, a plurality of visual bundlers, each visual bundler corresponding to a data subset of the data subsets, and may display the visual bundlers, each illustrating its corresponding data subset, to thereby provide the visualization in a manner that conveys the common property and a relationship of the data subsets to one another in the context of the common property. | 11-12-2015 |