Pluggable web-based visualizations for applications

摘要

The pluggable web-based visualization technique described herein pertains to a method for providing pluggable web-based visualizations for applications. The method selects visualizations from the web to be embedded into a host application on a desktop computing device. The visualizations can be plugged in to a variety of host applications. This empowers end-users, application designers, and visualization designers by allowing greater reuse of existing code. Additionally, end-users do not have to wait for new revisions of existing applications to use the latest techniques. Designers of domain specific visualizations can work on just the visualization and have them incorporated into a variety of different host applications. Users can perform local processing and visualizations on their own machine, yet obtain new visualizations from the web where they can be updated more frequently and where special purpose visualizations are available.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented process for creating a dynamic visualization of data for a software application:
using a computing device for:
obtaining a dataset for which a dynamic visualization is sought at the computing device that hosts the software application;receiving instructions for creating a first dynamic visualization over a network at the software application hosted on the computing device, wherein the software application hosted on the computing device employs a host adapter that interfaces with one or more dynamic visualizations and comprises a host library that provides commands that are used to render the dynamic visualization using the software application; andrendering the first dynamic visualization at a display of the computing device using the software application, the received instructions for creating a dynamic visualization, the host adapter and the obtained dataset so as to create the dynamic visualization that automatically changes on the display when the software application changes the dataset.