Patent ID: 7009609
Filing Date: 2006-03-07
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of automatically generating, in an application, a graph from report data derived from a previous report created by a different application, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a report format as comprising at least one first group at a first level having at least one detail line with at least two data fields in each of the detail lines, wherein the first group further includes either a vertical total for each of a plurality of the respective data fields in the first group or a horizontal total for each of a plurality of the respective detail lines, with each particular vertical total totaling a corresponding data field for each detail line and with each particular horizontal total totaling each of the data fields for that particular detail line; receiving a user input indicative of one of the totals; and generating a graph using a predefined rule corresponding to the one of the totals indicated by the user input, wherein the report format is hierarchical and further comprises a second group at a second level, each second group comprising one or more first groups, the second group including second group vertical totals, each second group vertical total aggregating all vertical totals for that data field for each first group in the second group, and wherein report data comprises data from the previous report created by the different application and the report data does not include any previous data used to create the previous report, and wherein the predefined rule for generating a graph is derived from the identified report format of the previous report created by the different application.