Extensible framework and graphical user interface for sharing, comparing, and displaying resource usage data

US8375068B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Lucid Designs LLC · US

Inventors

• Gavin Matthew Platt · Oakland, US
• Vladislav Kantchev Shunturov · Sofia, BG
• Michael Murray · North Palm Beach, US
• John Edmund Petersen · Oberlin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 11, 2009
• Grant date: Feb 12, 2013
• Expiry date: Feb 8, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/84
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A framework and graphical user interface for sharing, comparing, and displaying resource usage data provide for the ability to construct an extensible framework for configuring a graphical user interface (GUI) containing resource usage data pertaining to one or more entities. In various embodiments, the framework enables competitions and comparisons, event tagging, carbon offsetting, or any combination thereof. The framework also makes the GUI available by various means, including Internet distribution. The GUI may take the form of websites, standalone applications, desktop widgets, blog or social networking applications, and the like.