Oracle International Corporation

Dustin Bauder

Ananth Venkata

Jacques Vigeant

Reginald A Hansbrough

Narayan Madhavan Nayar

Wai On Lee

Satish Gopalakrishna

Techniques are disclosed for querying, retrieval, and presentation of data. A data analytic system can enable a user to provide input, through a device to query data. The data analytic system can identify the semantic meaning of the input and perform a query based on the semantic meaning. The data analytic system can crawl multiple different sources to determine a logical mapping of data for the index. The index may include one or more subject areas, terms defining those subject areas, and attributes for those terms. The index may enable the data analytic system to perform techniques for matching terms in the query to determine a semantic meaning of the query. The data analytic system can determine a visual representation best suited for displaying results of a query determined by semantic analysis of an input string by a user.

Techniques for semantic searching

An example system and method for selectively conveying content via User Interface (UI) display screen sections of Business Intelligence (BI) software and for facilitating user interaction therewith, e.g., so as to impart usefulness or preference ratings thereto, which can then affect subsequently displayed content. An example method includes providing one or more UI controls enabling a user to provide an input query and to interact with resulting content (i.e., query results, also called search results), where the user interaction with the content provides information (e.g., context information) indicative of a usefulness or preference rating pertaining to the content; thereby enabling modifications to subsequently retrieved content in accordance with the usefulness or preference rating(s). Such rating(s) may be aggregated from plural users of an associated software application. Additional UI controls may provide options to selectively share relevant retrieved content with other users, such as nearby users that have the appropriate permissions to view the shared content.

Content display and interaction according to estimates of content usefulness

An example system and method for selectively conveying content via User Interface (UI) display screen sections of Business Intelligence (BI) software. An example method includes displaying a UI display screen section within a UI display screen; providing a UI mechanism that allow specification of a condition; determining when the condition is met; and automatically redisplaying at least a portion of the UI display screen section in response to the determining, resulting in a redisplayed UI display screen section in response to the condition being met. The UI display screen section may include blogs or other activity feeds, visualizations, UI controls for manipulating the visualizations; for specifying conditions for redisplaying, i.e., bringing back the visualizations, etc.

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