Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ian Michael Dunmore

George G Robertson

Curtis Glenn Wong

Bongshin Lee

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Murali R Krishnan

David Francis Gainer

Christian Olaf Abeln

Stella Yick Chan

Benjamin L Chronister

Alexandre Gorev

Thomas Michael Casey

Matthew Jay Kotler

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Greg D Schechter

Brian Scott Ruble

Jason Joseph Weber

Morten Holm-Petersen

Scott Walter Bishel

Morten Holm-Peterson

Barry James Givens

Eric Friedrichsen

Ahmed K Kamal

George R Shaver

Kelley T Maves

Gregory D Schechter

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

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can construct a map for summarizing analyses with respect to data included in a database. In addition, the architecture can display the map in a special canvas area. Generally, the map is a hub-and-spoke-style map in which a hub is associated with an entity (e.g., a related set of records) included in a database. Likewise, the spokes are typically representative of operations (e.g., filter, join, transform) that act upon the hub/entity from which it extends. The map can aid with open-ended analysis on complex databases by recording and ordering competing hypotheses and can also further collaborative efforts with respect to analysis.

Canvas approach for analytics

The present invention provides a system by which a user can define datasets and arrange those datasets into report sections. The reporting sections have a format that is user defined, and the report sections can be easily reused on different reports.

System for designating grid-based database reports

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Ian Michael Dunmore