Patent ID: 9021397
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying data, the method executing on a computer system, the method comprising: grouping data according to plural user-specified dimensions; determining one or more extrinsic hierarchical relationships between the plural user-specified dimensions; displaying plural concentric bands or portions thereof in a first order based on the one or more extrinsic hierarchical relationships, and providing a visualization in response thereto, wherein each band is concentric about a center of the visualization, wherein each band includes one or more sectors, wherein a line drawn from a sector of an outer band to the center crosses one or more sectors of inner bands such that each inner-band sector crossed has a higher hierarchical relationship to the outer-band sector; and providing a first user option to change the first order to a second order by exchanging a first concentric band at a first distance to the center with a second concentric band at a second distance to the center, thereby selectively creating or changing one or more intrinsic hierarchies while preserving the one or more extrinsic hierarchical relationships.