Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Barry James Givens

George G Robertson

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Murali R Krishnan

Brian Scott Ruble

Jason Joseph Weber

Christian Bernd Schormann

Christian Olaf Abeln

Stella Yick Chan

Jakob Peter Nielsen

Joshua W Lee

Morten Holm-Peterson

Gur Kimchi

David Earl Heckerman

Curtis Glenn Wong

Benjamin Edward Rampson

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Jason David Carlson

David Francis Gainer

Brian L Welcker

B Scott Ruble

Michael Victor Ehrenberg

William Guthrie Morein

Sean Boon

Benjamin L Chronister

Ian Michael Dunmore

Alexandre Gorev

Thomas Michael Casey

Ahmed K Kamal

Kelley T Maves

Gregory D Schechter

A system (and corresponding methodology) by which a user can interact directly with visual data is provided. The system employs associations and relationships between visual data objects to automatically update objects based upon a change in other objects. The innovation also provides specialized controls (e.g., dashboard tools/controls) that facilitate manipulation of visual data. As there can be numerous manners in which a user can interact with visualization data, the innovation enables a specialized set of controls to be identified and provided to a user thereby reducing overwhelming effects of a large number of controls.

Dashboard controls to manipulate visual data

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can support a declarative model-based approach to designing, constructing, and rendering visualizations. By complying with a declarative descriptor, components can be readily customized by way of modifications to the model&#x2014;declaratively specifying suitable features, behaviors, appearances and so forth. The descriptors that conform to the model can also facilitate connecting to various data sources and performing data transformation operations. Moreover, the descriptors that conform to the model can declaratively specify relationships based upon a scene layout. Accordingly, the architecture can further describe the scene layout and provide features based upon the layout.

Declarative approach for visualization

A visualization input system is provided. The system includes a visualization component that receives input gestures from a user (or users) and translates the gestures into one or more data manipulation commands. A distribution component receives the data manipulation commands and propagates data modifications across one or more databases in view of the commands. This includes a rights component that enables the data modifications to be implemented across the one or more databases.

Visualization as input mechanism

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Barry James Givens