20130013677 | System and method for real-time, push style, distributed dashboard networks - This invention is about a distributed dashboard system including related server side and communication related functionality. The key idea is loosely defined metadata for the input data coupled with the fact that metadata can be defined after the data is loaded to the system. Usually metadata gives some kind of meaning to all of the data that it covers, in the current invention only the part that is relevant for the use of the dashboard needs to be mapped. In known data import and processing applications the “import file specification” is defined before the data is introduced, but in current invention the data can be loaded before, and then the meaning given in “point and click” fashion after the data is loaded. Users can then subscribe to different kind of gauges (that make up the dashboard) in order to construct their own dashboard, this subscribing happens mostly in a web based user interface, but might also be allowed from the dashboard itself. In addition to gauges that display information also input controls called levers are supported that allow users to input commands to the system that are processed either by the local device or by the server side system. | 01-10-2013 |