Patent ID: 9262055
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of displaying health and status information for an electro-mechanical system in a carousel view on a display, said method comprising: defining a set including a plurality of sub-systems, each sub-system including one or more instances of hardware components from one or more categories and sub-categories, each instance characterized by one or more identifiers and one or more health and status attributes, each said attribute having an assigned value indicative of the health and status of the instance; polling the system for health and status information to update the attribute values for each instance of each sub-system in the set; defining a heat map having rows and columns of cells; for each sub-system in the set, mapping the one or more instances of hardware components from the one or more categories and sub-categories to different cells in the heat map based either on the category and sub-category designation of the instance or on a location of the instance within a physical area of the sub-system and mapping the attribute values for the one or more instances to a color to color the cells of the heat map and provide a different heat map for each sub-system, each said color indicative of a different state of the health and status of an instance; assigning each heat map to a different bin in a carousel data structure, said bins and heat maps being linked in an ordered list; displaying at least one of the heat maps in the ordered list in a carousel display panel on the display, one said heat map displayed as a focus heat map; displaying an inset view of the system with a spatial layout of the sub-systems in the set adjacent to the carousel display panel, each said sub-system displayed as an icon; highlighting the sub-system icon in the inset view that corresponds to the focus heat map to provide a visual cue for the focus heat map; in response to an operator input, rotating the carousel to display a different heat map as the focus heat map in the carousel display panel and to highlight a different sub-system icon in the inset view that corresponds to the new focus heat map; and in response to an operator selection of a cell in the focus heat map, displaying health and status information for the selected cell on the display.