US 11,816,769 B2
Multi-dimensional data insight interaction
Zhitao Hou, Beijing (CN); Haidong Zhang, Beijing (CN); Dongmei Zhang, Beijing (CN); Rui Ding, Beijing (CN); and Shi Han, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmon, WA (US)
Appl. No. 15/739,139
Filed by MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 29, 2015, PCT No. PCT/CN2015/082631
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/000111, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 5, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0051293 A1, Feb. 13, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 16/904 (2019.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC G06T 11/206 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 16/904 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computing device, a request for a dataset comprising a plurality of subspaces of a multi-dimensional data structure;
presenting one or more insights associated with the request in a first portion of a user interface associated with the computing device;
receiving a selection of a portion of the one or more insights;
responsive to receiving the selection of the portion, presenting one or more contextual insights in a second portion of the user interface, wherein each contextual insight of the one or more contextual insights comprises:
a visualization of a data subspace in the plurality of subspaces; and
a textual description providing explanatory facts about the data subspace with respect to the visualization, the textual description being separate from the visualization;
receiving, in the second portion of the user interface, a comment from a first user about the one or more contextual insights;
associating the comment with the one or more contextual insights such that the comment is displayed in the second portion of the user interface with the one or more contextual insights; and
presenting the one or more contextual insights with the comment when the one or more contextual insights are accessed.