Applying relative weighting schemas to online usage data

摘要

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture allow adjusting the relative weighting associated with evaluation criteria associated with a unified view of dissimilar data. The operation generally includes collecting data regarding attributes of a user interacting with an application, where the collected data has associated evaluation criteria. The data is collectively represented according to the evaluation criteria. The systems, methods and articles of manufacture then allow dynamically modifying the evaluation criteria before evaluating and collectively representing the data according to the adjusted criteria.

主权项

1. A software monitoring application method, comprising:
collecting, by a monitoring server, data regarding attributes of a user interacting with an application at a client site in order to create a unified view of dissimilar data, said collected data having associated evaluation criteria; collectively representing said data evaluated according to said criteria via a display; providing a mechanism for dynamically adjusting said evaluation criteria assigned to selected data attributes, wherein said mechanism may be dynamically modified; applying said adjusted evaluation criteria to said collected data; and collectively representing said data evaluated according to said adjusted criteria via said display, wherein the evaluation criteria comprises a weighting schema, wherein the evaluation criteria is weighted, filtered and adjusted prior to displaying the data, and adjusting a filter value of the evaluation criteria via a direct user manipulation of an adjustable control to assign a weighting value to the evaluation criteria, wherein the client site is remote from the monitoring server, and wherein the mechanism is decoupled from said application such that the associated evaluation criteria is applied to different types of data collected from a plurality of different locations.