Patent ID: 9424670
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for pie chart threshold setting, the method comprising: providing, by one or more computer processors, one or more displayed pie charts comprising a plurality of pie chart slices; providing, by the one or more computer processors, threshold-setting flags, wherein the threshold-setting flags comprise one or more range flags that can be controlled via a user interface to set a threshold, wherein the threshold is associated with a slice of the pie chart, and wherein the threshold-setting flags can be viewed and controlled by a user in a Threshold-Setting Mode; providing, by the one or more computer processors, one or more indicators, wherein the one or more indicators display a percentage value associated with a respective threshold, and wherein the one or more indicators can be viewed in the Threshold-Setting Mode; receiving, by the one or more computer processors, an instruction to enter the Threshold-Setting Mode; receiving, by the one or more computer processors, an instruction to set the threshold, based on the user controlling a range flag of the one or more range flags or inputting a value via an indicator of the one or more indicators in the Threshold-Setting Mode, wherein the user controls the range flag by a directional dragging motion, and wherein a lower threshold can be set by a leftwards dragging motion or an upper threshold can be set by a rightwards dragging motion; updating, by the one or more computer processors, the displayed percentage value based on the set threshold; displaying, by the one or more computer processors, at a display device, the set threshold as a virtual slice associated with the pie chart, wherein the virtual slice is displayed as an extension of the pie chart, wherein overlapping virtual slices associated with a plurality of pie chart slices are displayed based on the user having set at a plurality of thresholds, and wherein the multiple overlapping virtual slices are differentiated amongst themselves based on one or more of color and height; receiving, by the one or more computer processors, an instruction to exit the Threshold-Setting Mode; and hiding, by the one or more computer processors, responsive to the instruction to exit the Threshold-Setting Mode, the one or more threshold-setting flags and the one or more indicators.