Patent ID: 11875025
Assignee: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computerized method of visually presenting a hierarchical data set, the method being performed by a computer system that comprises one or more processors and one or more interfaces operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, the method comprising:
receiving through at least one of the interfaces data that represents a hierarchical data set, the hierarchical data set comprising a plurality of data points in a plurality of hierarchical levels that comprises at least three hierarchical levels, the hierarchical levels being ordered from highest level to lowest level, and each data point comprising at least one value;
responsive to receipt of the data, executing instructions on at least one of the processors to dynamically calculate layout data for an ocular view of the data set, the ocular view comprising a plurality of concentric annular regions surrounding a circular region and the layout data being dynamically calculated based on the received hierarchical data set so that
(i) the annular regions are in one-to-one correspondence with the levels of hierarchy of the data set,
(ii) each annular region is divided into contiguous segments, the number of segments in each respective annular region being equal to the number of data points in the corresponding level of hierarchy of the data set and the segments in each respective annular region being in one-to-one correspondence with the data points in the corresponding level of hierarchy of the data set, and
(iii) each segment displays at least one of the values in the respective corresponding data point,
wherein an outermost concentric annular region corresponds to a highest hierarchy level of the hierarchical data set and an innermost concentric annular region corresponds to a lowest hierarchy level of the hierarchical data set,
wherein each data point in the lowest level comprises respectively at least one result of a respective laboratory test,
wherein the at least one result relates respectively to at least one of a plurality of organs or body systems, each organ or body system being comprised respectively by exactly one data point in a level other than the lowest level, and
wherein the ocular view displays segments corresponding to laboratory test results and segments corresponding to organs or body systems in a manner visually indicating hierarchical relationships between the at least one results and the organs or body systems;

transmitting through at least one of the interfaces information to cause an electronic display device to present the dynamically calculated ocular view of the data set;
after transmitting the information to cause an electronic display device to present the dynamically calculated ocular view of the data set, at least one of the processors executing instructions to determine that a user interface pointer is pointing at one of the segments in the annular region that corresponds to the lowest level of the hierarchy; and
in response to the determination, transmitting through at least one of the interfaces information to cause the electronic display device to present in the circular region at least one of the values comprised by the data point corresponding to the segment being pointed to, without altering the one-to-one correspondence between the annular regions and the levels of hierarchy of the data set and without altering any of the one-to-one correspondences between the segments of the annular regions and the data points in the respective corresponding levels of hierarchy of the data set.