«2 United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,917,274 B2 ‘US008917274B2 Ma et al. 4s) Date of Patent: Dec. 23, 2014 (64) EVENT MATRIX BASED ON INTEGRATED. 563200 A $1997 Ran etal DATA S6m98T A 94907 Dovetal Seas300 A 121998 Comer etal Gosrasr A '32000 srowsmih ta (71) Applicant: Paluntie Technologies, Ine. Palo Alto, eae eee secant aa caw) S6L08 A 122000 Wallnan 62190083 BL 42001 Tachinna ct (72) Inventors: Jason Ma, Palo Alto, CA (US); Brian a Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Evan Saaee Minamoto, Menlo Park, CA (US) POREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (73) Assignee: Palantic Technologies Ine, Palo Alto, EP 1en97 62006 cA) i 288709 1013, (Continved) (4) Notice: Subjoct to any disclaimer the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 OTHER PUBLICATIONS USC. 154) by 0 days 1. Allie, “Summarizing Relational Data Using Semi-Superised 21) Appl. Nos 14/135,289 GonaicAlgoithn-Basod Clustering Techaigues" J. Comput Sei 6: 775.764, 2010 (22) Filed: Dee. 19, 2013, cn 6s) Prior Publication Data 5 po1ao26r34 Primary Examiner — James A Thompson cea (4) Attornes, Agent, oF Firm — Knobbe Martens Olson & Related U.S. Application Data Bear LLP (60). Provisional application No. 61/798 S81, fildon Mat. ¢jp) s 15,2013, co ABSTRACT Aan event matrix may comprise labels and indicators core- (1) meer soning to cbjects nd links of n ontology. The objects and Gusr ii20 (2006.01) Hinks may be determine fom apa of datasources by 9 (2) US.CL dtaintegration system, Someotthe labels may correspond ¥ cre G06T 117206 201301) eventobycts, and may be rranged in ist spatial dinension uspc $MS/440; 3451619 alestin parton thesis of dates associated wth sid event (58). Feld of Cassication Search jets. Cer labels may eorespond lo non-event objects, Nove tun may bearrangedina second spatial dimension neato See application fle for complete search history. may comespond to inks between the event and non-vent jets. 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I | | I | us 30S | 301A30 = ANON | | oo \ ASVYOLS NIV | |US 8,917,274 B2 1 EVENT MATRIX BASED ON INTEGRATED. DATA, (CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED "APPLICATIONS, This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Appli= ‘ation No. 61/798. 581, entitled “EVENT MATRIX BASED ‘ON INTEGRATED DATA” which was filed Mar. 15, 2013, and is hereby incorporated by reference i its entirety. TECHNICAL FIELD ‘The present disclosure relates to systems and techniques ‘or data integration, analysis, and visualization. More specifi cally, itrlates to visualization of connections berween events ‘and persons, places, things, ete BACKGROUND Computers enable the collection and. storage of vast amounts of data in easly accesible databases. Paterns, con- nections, and other features ofthis data may peovide valuable insights but the volume of the information may present chal Jenges for analysis. Visualizations may be used f avereome these challenges by representing aspects of thedata ina visual manner, e., ina graph or diagram. Visualizations ofa lange data set may be substantially more intuitive and useful than, ‘eg, a textual representation ofthe underlying data ora set of Statistics drawa from the dat, Like other aspects of large-scale data analysis, producing visualizations may be challenging when the input data is aot uniformly structured. Inconsistent structure is particularly ‘common in data drawn from many different sources, which people are inereasingly interested in analyzing, Data intepra- tion platforms have been created to combine data from dif ferent sources forthe purpose of analysis, but the visliza- ‘ion Functionality they provide may be limited. ‘A visualization that is useful for drawing insights from one data set may’ not be useil foe drawing isights from another data set. Therefore, some platforms may suppor a variety of ‘different visualizations. Fach type of visualization may have ‘unique limitations. For example, certain visualizations may be usefil for analyzing only a few specific kinds of data ‘Other viswalzations may be useful for tined analyst fol Jowing specific lines of inguiry, but may not be useful for lay enone needing an intuitive overview of relevant informe tion, There is a need for visualizations that overcome these Jimits, with broad uty and intuitive readability SUMMARY, Embodiments described herein may be used wo produce visualizations that depict connections betwoen objets from ‘an integrated dataset, A visualization of this sort may be ‘organized chronologically, and may be referred to as an “event matrix” none embodiment, a system for generating visualizations ‘of integrated data comprises at least one processor, and data Storage comprising instructions executable by the processor. When execited, the insirctions may cause the system 0 receive input daa from a plurality of datasources and deter ‘mine a set of objects from the input data Based onan ontology ‘comprising phrality of object types. The system may’ store the objets in one or more databases. The system may’ also ‘identify first subset ofthe determined set of objects, wherein the fist subset comprises event objects; identity a second 0 o 2 subset ofthe determined set of objects, wherein the second subset of objects comprises non-event objects: and identify a set of lnks between objects in the fs subset and objects in the socond subset In addition, the system may generate frst Jabels corresponding to the objects in the first subset, second labels corresponding tothe objects inthe second subset, and indicators coresponding 10 Tinks in the set of Finks. The system may arrange the fist abel in irs spatial dimension, ‘wherein an onder ofthe arranged fist labels isbased at eas in partondates and/or times associated with the event objects in the first subset; arrange the second labels ina second spatial e modified at anytime using object type editor 324, property type editor 326, and link type editor 328, or under progr control without human use of an editor. Parser editor 322 ‘enables ereating multiple parser definitions tat can suecess- fully parse input data 300 having varying formst or syntax ‘and determine which property types should be used to trans: orm input data 300 into new or modified input data 303. ‘The properties, objects, and the links (e. relationships) between the objects can be visualized using graphical user interface (GUD). For example, FIG. 4 displays user interfaceUS 8,917,274 B2 9 showing graph representation 408 of relationships (includ- Ing relationships o links 404,408, 406, 407, 408) betveen the data objects (including data objects 411, 412, 413, 414, 415,416) thatare represented as nodes inthe example of FIG. 4. In this embodiment, the data objects are person objects, In this example, the person nodes (associated with person data ‘objets) may have relationships to other person nodes, for ‘example, through payment objects. For example, relationship «404 is based on a payment associated with the individuals indicated in person data objects 411 and 413. The link 404 represents these seed payments (for example, the individual ‘associated with data objest 411 may have paid dhe individual associated with data object 413 on three occasions), These relationships may be stored as Tinks, or in some embodiments as properties, where a relationship may be detected between the properties, In some eases, as stated above, the inks my be directional For example, payment Fink may have a direc- tion associated withthe payment, where one person objet is areceiverof a payment, and another person abject isthe payer ‘of payment. In addition to visually showing relationships between the data objects, the user interface may’ allow various other ‘manipolations, For example, the objects within database 108 may be searched using a search interface 420 (etext tring matching oF object properties), inspected (ez, properties and associated data viewed) filtered (eg, narrowing the universe ‘ofobjects into setsand subsets by propertesorrelationships) and statistically aeregated (eg, numerically summarized based on surimarization eriteria), among other operations ‘and visualizations Example Method of Generating Event Mati "As described earlier inthis disclosure, an event mates it 2 particularly useful and intuitive typeof visualization for inte- pated data, An example of an event matrix was previously presented in FIG. 1. Turning now to FIG. 5, an example process is presented for generating an event matrix. This process may be implemented, e, by a data integration pat orm comprising a computersystem that includes the dataand ‘components of FIG. 3. Additional disclosure related to com= puter systems is provided below, with respect to FIG. 6. The process of FIG. § begins at block 502, where inp data is received. This input data may comespon 0, e.g. input data 30001 FIG. 3. Atblock S04, sn ontology is epplid othe int ‘data, providing an inteprated imerfice (0 facilitate further ‘alysis. This ontology may corespondto, eg, ontology 208, OfFIGS. Zand 3. Continuing at block $06, events and non-eveat objects are ‘identified from the ontology. Objects fom the ontology may be identified based on selection by a user, eg. using the imterface of FIG. 4. The interface may include a button, ment item, hotkey, or other means forthe usero request generation ‘of an event matrix based on the selected objects. In one ‘example, selected objects may be dragged into a designated fee to create anew event matrix or they maybe dragged into ‘an existing matrix, which may be updated 10 include the seleted items. Objects may also be identified automaticaly, jn addition 10 or instead of being selected manually. For ‘example, ia user presses a button to ereate an event matrix without Selecting any objees, the event matrix may inelude allobjeets that are currently vsibleon the user's display. orall visible objects plus all objects that are linked tothe visible ‘objects. Ineertain embodiments, someof the selected objects may be excluded, e.g, based on criteria related to compat- ‘bility with an event matrix or with cach other, For example, ‘selected object may be excluded iit is part of an object ype that docs not include date or ime infomation, and if itis aot ‘connected to an object that includes date or ine information, 0 o 10 At block $08, links between events and other objects are identified. These links may correspond to, eg. link 202 of PIGS, 2 and 3.A link may be determined from any associa. tion, connection, or relationship tht is included explicitly or ‘implicitly inthe ontology. Some or all ofthe identified links ‘may he created fr the frst ime during the process of FIG. 5 Any means of establishing links between objects: may be sed, ‘At block 510, an event matex user interface, configured for display onan electronic display device andior for printing on paper, is generated. In one embodiment, the user inerface ‘includes lobels ssociated with cach identified object and link indicators indicating links between objects. The labels and indicatorsmay be arranged atleast in part on the basis of dates ndir times associated with the events. fanevent has no date ‘or time information, it may appear atthe end of the event smatex. “The arranged labels and indicators may be combined with various formatting, styling, and other aesthetic features in ‘order to form a completed event matrix, such as the matrix of FIG. I. In some embodiments, one oF more rows, clus, cells labels or indicators may be highlighted. Highlighting ‘may be added automatically, based on customizable rules, oF fon an ad hoe basis. In one embodiment, a user may’ add an ‘object to the event matrix by draging it frm graph repre- sentation 403 of FIG. 4. The completed event matcix may be splayed, printed, ransmitted, or otherwise presente to one ‘or more users and/or readers Implementation Meebanisms ‘According to one embodiment, the techniques described ‘herein are implemented by one or more special-purpose com- puting devices. The special-purpose computing devices may be hard-wired to perform the technigues, of may include ligital electronic devices such as one oF more application- specific integrated cireuts (ASICs) or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that are persistently programmed t0 perform the techniques, or may include one or more general purpose hardware processors programmed to perform the Techniques pursuant 10 program insiructions in finmwar, memory, other storig, or a combination. Such special-pur- pose computing devices may also combine custom bard- ‘wired logic, ASICs, or FPGAs with custom programming 10 ‘accomplish the techniques. The special-purpose computing ‘devices may be desktop compute systems, server computer systems, portable computer systems, handheld devices, net working devices or any other device or combination of devices that incorporate hard-wired andlor program logic to ‘implement the techniques. ‘Computing device(s) are generally controlled and coordi= nated by operating system software, such as iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Wine dows 8, Windows Server, Windows CE, Unix, Linux, SunOS, Solaris, 10S, Blackberry OS, VxWorks, or other compatible ‘operting systems. In other embodiments, the computing device may be controled by a proprietary operating system. Conventional operating systems control and sehedule com- puter processes forexecution, perform memory management, provide ile system, networking, 1] services and provide & user interface Functionality such asa graphical user interface (GUT), among athor things For example, FIG. 6 8 4 block diagram that illustrates 3 ‘computer system 600 upon which an embodiment may be implemented. Computer system 600 includes a bus 602 or cer communication mechanism for communicating infor ‘mation, anda hardware processor, or multiple processors, 604