Patent ID: 9037964
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for performing direct manipulation on an analytics report comprising: detecting a direct manipulation (DM) event associated with an chart of an analytics report, wherein the DM event is a user interface (UI) input, wherein the chart is an information graphic, wherein the information graphic is at least one of a graphically rendered HTML compliant element and a data set, wherein the analytics report presented within a browser interface; responsive to the detecting, executing an appropriate DM action, wherein the DM action is an immediate rendering of the information graphic based on the DM event; when the DM action executes a request for analytics data not in the data set, obtaining the analytics data from a different data set from a different data repository; when the DM action executes a request for analytics data in the data set, automatically retrieving the requested data from the data set; and render the analytics data as an analytics chart within the canvas element of an HTML document; and dynamically converting the analytics chart from an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format to a JavaScript Object notation (JSON) format before the analytics report is presented within the browser, wherein the converting occurs within a presentation layer of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model, wherein the DM action executes at an application level of the browser interface, wherein the conversion is subject to at least one conversion rule, wherein the at least one conversion rule can be dynamically altered during run-time.