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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
Xinhua Ji, Shanghai, CN;
Alexander Dadiomov, Redmond, WA (US);
Hazim Shafi, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Ledoux, Bellevue, WA (US);
William T. Colburn, Issaquah, WA (US);
Xinhua Ji, Shanghai, CN;
Alexander Dadiomov, Redmond, WA (US);
Hazim Shafi, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Ledoux, Bellevue, WA (US);
William T. Colburn, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a visualization of states of a process includes identifying a set of potential states that can occur during the process and a corresponding set of colors, with each color in the set of colors corresponding to one of the potential states. A fixed ordering is established for the set of colors. A timeline graph including a plurality of colored vertical bars is displayed. Each colored vertical bar corresponds to a time interval of the process and includes at least one color selected from the set of colors based on at least one state occurring during the time interval corresponding to the vertical bar. The plurality of colored vertical bars includes a set of multiple-color vertical bars that each include a plurality of colors appearing in a vertical order based on the fixed ordering.