Patent ID: 9672294
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer data processing system configured for partial data report generation with data costing notification, the system comprising: a host computing system comprising at least one computer each computer comprising memory and at least one processor; an analysis tool executing in the memory of the host computing system; and, a plug in to the analysis tool communicatively linked to the analysis tool, the plug in comprising program code enabled to process requests to acquire and reduce data from one or more data stores accessible to the host computing system, to register with the analysis tool a call back for a plurality of data retrieval operation specified by the plug in to retrieve data corresponding to each of the data retrieval operations from one or more of the data stores the plug in reporting the retrieved data within a report and to respond to invoking the plug in by determining for each data retrieval operation whether the data retrieval operation should be deferred based on a predetermined temporal cost of retrieving the data corresponding to the data retrieval operation, generating the report with the data retrieved by data retrieval operations determined not to be deferred and directing the analysis tool by the plug-in to insert within the report at least one selectable user interface control that references the call back that is registered with the analysis tool and includes a textual indication of the temporal cost of retrieving the data known to be temporally costly in place of the data when the data retrieval operations are determined to be deferred.