Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Emil Cicos

Abraham Mathew

Philippe-Joseph Arida

Raveendrnathan Loganathan

Alexander H Malek

Phillip David Allen

Mark Nelson

Heidi McAllister

John Zhongqi Wang

William Guthrie Morein

Eilene Hao Klaka

Po-Yan Tsang

Sung Won Shin

Helene Martin

Phillippe-Joseph Arida

Loic Henry-Greard

Mairead Therese Droney

Extensible architecture and data flow in a web based diagram visualization service is accomplished by enabling a diagram update engine to launch custom data modules. Data modules for data sources that are not inherently supported are created by third parties through a specially defined interface (e.g. .NET&#xae; assemblies) and made visible for the web based diagram services and callable from a diagram update engine. Thus, a number of data sources from which diagram data can be retrieved and the way incoming data is manipulated and aggregated is extensible through code.

Extensibility for web based diagram visualization

A mechanism is provided for saving workflow execution state and mapping the execution state to graphical elements overlaid on a graphical drawing representing the workflow generated by a separate application. The graphical drawing may be a flowchart drawing corresponding to one or more paths of the workflow and the graphical elements may provide status information associated with individual steps or groups of steps of the workflow execution.

Workflow visualization

Technologies are described herein for refreshing data-linked diagrams on a server computer and viewing and consuming the refreshed diagrams via a Web browser. A drawing program allows equations within a diagram definition to define how external data is utilized to modify the attributes of a diagram element. When the diagram is published to a server computer, the definition is converted to server-legible definition. A published diagram is generated that includes a diagram representation defined by the server-legible definition. Upon a request for the published diagram, the external data is refreshed and the diagram definition is updated. The equations are recalculated to generate new element attributes. The diagram representation is then updated with the new attributes and returned for display by a client Web browser. An interface provides exploration tools and a client API exposes methods for surfacing external data and annotating the diagram.

Web-based visualization, refresh, and consumption of data-linked diagrams

Growing community of inventors

Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Emil Cicos