Patent Document ID: 8671364
Application ID: 13245550

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a logic device; and an information visualization application operative on the logic device, the information visualization application comprising a multivariable presentation component arranged to generate a multivariable decomposition visualization to present hierarchical information for a response variable and multiple reporting variables defined for the response variable in a single user interface view, the multivariable decomposition visualization comprising multiple graphical user interface (GUI) elements each representing a reporting variable value of multiple reporting variables for multiple hierarchical levels, with a GUI element of a reporting variable value of a reporting variable of a hierarchical level selectable for decomposition into multiple GUI elements representing reporting variable values of a different reporting variable for a different hierarchical level, the selectable GUI element of the hierarchical level positioned adjacent to the decomposed GUI elements of the different hierarchical level when the selectable GUI element is selected for decomposition.

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Claim 9:
9. The apparatus of claim 1 , the multivariable presentation component operative to generate the multivariable decomposition visualization with multiple columns, each column to present one or more GUI elements for each reporting variable value of a reporting variable of a given hierarchical level, with adjacent GUI elements for adjacent columns forming an information pipe representing a hierarchical path across multiple hierarchical levels.