Choral Systems, LLC

Ncr Corporation

Dick Sharadchandra Amin

Jean-Michel Ares

Thomas G Holzman

Wesley G Hunter

Mark A Jacobson

Monica M Huff

Steven C Miller

Disclosed methods and systems describe an analytics server that generates an inter-related nodal data structure. The analytics server receives an electronic template having a set of input fields, the electronic template identifying at least a portion of data stored within a database and its corresponding domain data table and a display attribute, the electronic template further identifying a database storing the data; retrieves the data from the database; parses the data into a set of unique domain data tables having a first criterion and a set of unique dimension tables having a second criterion; generates a nodal network comprising a set of nodes where each node represents at least a portion of the retrieved data, each node having metadata comprising a unique identifier corresponding to a unique domain table and a unique dimension table corresponding to data associated with each node; links one or more nodes based their respective metadata.

Data analysis and visualization using structured data tables and nodal networks

The present invention provides speech and audio user-computer interface mechanisms for accessing and editing information in electronic records. A mechanism is provided by which the user can direct inputs to any of a variety of fields without following a predetermined order of input. This allows the user to be proactive in making entries rather than simply reacting to requirements set by computer-generated prompts. Audio is provided as feedback to the user, not as a fixed path prompt for the user. This feedback can be in the form of non-verbal auditory signals or synthesized speech. The invention uses audio to inform the user of whether or not the system understood the spoken words or phrases as valid inputs to the electronic record, what the system recognized as the input, and to identify the contents of various fields in the electronic record. The precise wording for the speech inputs can be changed from one implementation of the invention to another, depending on what terminology is most meaningful to users, works best with the speech recognition engine being used, etc. Likewise, the audio outputs from the system, both nonverbal sounds and synthesized speech, used in implementing this invention can vary from one application to another.

System for navigation and editing of electronic records through speech and audio

This invention provides graphical user interface mechanisms for grouping and viewing data elements in a manner analogous to the way in which their physical world counterparts would interact. A system is provided by which users manipulate a pointing device (e.g., mouse, trackball, or touch screen monitor) to position iconic representations of data elements in a graphical representation of space (e.g., on an electronic map). If one icon is placed on top of another one that is an allowable container for the moved icon (i.e., that can be a parent data element for the data element represented by the moved icon), the moved icon disappears from immediate view and is placed inside the container. The contents of container icons can be viewed by placing the graphical pointer on top of them, resulting in the &ldquo;blow-up&rdquo; of those icons so that iconic and textual descriptions of their child data elements are displayed. Additionally, users can drill down on any container icon to display its properties and those of its child data elements by performing a selection action (e.g., left mouse button click) on that container icon.

System and process for manipulating and viewing hierarchical iconic containers

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Dick Sharadchandra Amin