Patent ID: 9529892
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for navigating among a plurality of pre-generated two-dimensional visualizations representing quantitative data, comprising: at a processor, obtaining at least one defined relationship among the plurality of pre-generated two-dimensional visualizations, wherein at least two of the two-dimensional visualizations represent different quantitative data from one another; at the processor, constructing a virtual multi-faceted shape having a plurality of surfaces in at least three dimensions; at the processor, assigning at least two of the two-dimensional visualizations to different surfaces of the virtual multi-faceted shape by: assigning a first two-dimensional visualization to a first surface of the virtual multi-faceted shape, and assigning a second two-dimensional visualization to a second surface, that is vertically adjacent to the first surface, of the virtual multi-faceted shape, wherein the positioning of the first two-dimensional visualization and the second two-dimensional visualization on the vertically adjacent surfaces represents a hierarchical relationship between the quantitative data represented by the first two-dimensional visualization and the quantitative data represented by the second two-dimensional visualization; at an output device, displaying the virtual multi-faceted shape; and at the output device, displaying the first two-dimensional visualization on the first surface of the displayed virtual multi-faceted shape, wherein displaying the first two-dimensional visualization comprises displaying the first two-dimensional visualization, representing first data, on the first surface of the displayed virtual multi-faceted shape; at an input device, receiving input to rotate the virtual multi-faceted shape; responsive to the received input indicating rotation along a vertical axis: at the output device, rotating the virtual multi-faceted shape along the vertical axis, to reveal the second surface of the virtual multi-faceted shape, and at the output device, displaying, on the second surface, the second two-dimensional visualization corresponding to the second surface, the second two-dimensional visualization representing second data different than the first data; responsive to the received input indicating rotation along a horizontal axis: at the output device, rotating the virtual multi-faceted shape along the horizontal axis, to reveal a third surface of the virtual multi-faceted shape, and at the output device, displaying, on the third surface, a third two-dimensional visualization corresponding to the third surface, the third two-dimensional visualization having a peer-level relationship with the first two-dimensional visualization and representing third data different than the first data; wherein the peer-level relationship is different from the hierarchical relationship.