Patent Document ID: 9240061
Application ID: 13633735
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, business intelligence (BI) dashboard metadata for a plurality of dashboard objects, wherein respective dashboard objects among the dashboard objects are based on respective multidimensional data sources, wherein the metadata for each respective dashboard object indicates a number of dimensions of the respective multidimensional data source, a number of measures of the respective multidimensional data source, a number of tabs of the respective multidimensional data source, and types of displays comprised in the respective dashboard object; and generating, by the one or more computing devices, based on the BI dashboard metadata for the plurality of dashboard objects, a plurality of images in a business intelligence dashboard, wherein respective images among the plurality of images represent respective dashboard objects among the plurality of dashboard objects, wherein generating the respective images is based at least in part on one or more rules defined for generating the images with respective visual patterns to represent characteristics of the metadata associated with the respective dashboard objects represented by the respective images, and wherein generating the respective images based at least in part on the one or more rules comprises generating the respective images with a plurality of generally vertical lines to represent the number of dimensions of the respective multidimensional data sources; a plurality of generally horizontal lines to represent the number of measures of the respective multidimensional data sources; a plurality of cascading horizontal lines to represent a number of tabs of the respective multidimensional data sources; and one or more icons representing the types of displays, wherein the icons comprise at least one of a crosstab icon, a chart icon, and a graph icon.