Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Abhijit Kundu

Brian Burdick

Adam E C Yeh

A method of navigating data associated with a plurality of nodes in a hierarchy stored in a database. The nodes are organized in a plurality of levels of the hierarchy where each node has a label. Software of the invention requests and receives a set of labels associated with one or more nodes in one or more levels in the hierarchy from the database. The software displays a visual representation of the hierarchy to a user including the received labels. A user select a plurality of the displayed labels from any level in the hierarchy to process data associated with the nodes corresponding to the selected labels.

Hierarchical data navigation tool populated by a web service

The invention is directed to filtering data in a database with a calendar user interface. The invention returns data associated with time periods selected by the user. In particular, the calendar user interface provides options to the user to individually select a range or non-contiguous time periods and to specify time periods relative to a current time period where the relative time periods are internally converted to fixed time periods.

Calendar control for selection of time periods to filter data

Systems and methods for visually displaying clickthrough, impression, and other data pertaining to webpages are provided. In various embodiments, such data can be displayed concurrently with a display of a tracked webpage. User indication of either an element on a tracked webpage or corresponding data can operate to visually highlight related features of the display. Implementation of the present invention may be accomplished by providing a user interface for retrieving downloaded webpages and corresponding data, a scheduler for scheduling the periodic download of tracked webpages, and one or more downloaders for downloading tracked webpages into a target directory.

Realtime web page scrapping and visual representation of associated clickthrough and impression data architecture

A system and method for a reporting information service using metadata to communicate with databases and a user interface. The invention includes software in a data access component, a report component, and a user interface component for populating, maintaining, and dispatching reports responsive to user requests for the reports via metadata. The data access component provides a logical view of data in a database via data access metadata. The report component populates, maintains, and dispatches reports via report metadata characterizing the reports. The user interface component renders the report dispatched from the report component via user interface metadata specifying rendering attributes for the report.

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