System and method for interactive grouping of pie chart slices

Details System and method for interactive grouping of pie chart slices System and method for interactive grouping of pie chart slices

2005-12-06

2005-12-06

Brier, Jeffery A. (Department: 2672)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Graph generating

Reexamination Certificate

active

06972762

ABSTRACT:
Described is a system and method for grouping elements whose data falls below a grouping threshold, and for displaying the grouped elements as a single portion of a graphical chart. Briefly stated, the system and method allow a user to dynamically increase a grouping threshold from a default value to an adjusted value. The data for each elements falling below the adjusted grouping threshold is aggregated. The grouped elements are then displayed as a single slice with a value of the aggregated data rather than being displayed as individual slices. In this way, the important information, which normally means the bigger and more significant slices, is more clearly visible. Further more, a single label may be associated with the group, thereby eliminating problems associated with the layout of multiple labels for each individual grouped element.

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