Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nigel Christopher WIlliam Wolters

Amir Netz

Generating a user interface visualizing a table data structure. A table data structure comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns is accessed. A column to use for sorting each row into a different region of the user interface is identified. Region characteristics, usable for matching which row(s) is to be visualized within a corresponding region, are identified. Each region is associated with a different subset of row(s) that are to be visualized within the region. Each subset comprises rows having a value that matches the region characteristics of the associated region at an intersection between the column and the row in the table data structure. A visual representation of each row is displayed within the user interface. The display includes a visual arrangement of each visual representation into a corresponding region. Each visual representation is arranged within the region the row associated with the visual representation belongs.

User interface technology for displaying table data

The displaying of data from a table in a manner that at least some of the rows are each represented with row visualization, and in which the positioning of the row visualization conveys information regarding column values of the row. In particular, those row visualizations that correspond to rows in which one or more column values satisfy certain value characteristics are clustered within a common region. Thus, intuitive knowledge of the characteristics of the rows may be obtained by simply noticing the position of the row visualization within the user interface. In some cases, a given row visualization may have a control that may be interacted with to show a more detailed row representation, or a given region may have a control that may be interacted with to show further details regarding the rows represented within that region.

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Nigel Christopher WIlliam Wolters