| BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20130073537 | QUERY PLAN REFORMULATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive an original query plan, to transform the original query plan into an equivalent executable compact query plan, and to store the compact query plan on a machine readable device. Further activities may include computing maximal source sub-queries associated with the compact query plan, and computing semi-join reductions of the maximal source sub-queries to provide an executable derivative query plan, which may also be stored on a machine readable device. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20120290292 | UNSTRUCTURED DATA SUPPORT WITH AUTOMATIC RULE GENERATION - A system to process unstructured data is provided. An example system to process unstructured data comprises a receiver to access a source of unstructured data, an entity type module to determine an entity type, a rules generator to automatically generate a linguistic rule based on the determined entity type, and an entity extractor to obtain an entity from the source of unstructured data, using the linguistic rule. The entity comprises an alpha-numeric string. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120284223 | Dataset Previews for ETL Transforms - Disclosed is a user interface on a display for editing data transformations comprising an ETL process. A first display area presents a data representation of a data transformation. A second display area presents a view of input data, and a third display are presents a view of output data. User input to modify the data transformation is received. In response to receiving the user input, the third display area is updated with output data generated by applying the modified data transformation to the input data. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120216150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING OBJECTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A system, computer-readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method for manipulating one or more objects in a graphical user interface for a display device is presented. A start of a path selection mode is detected. A first path traversed by a cursor in the graphical user interface is detected, with the first path intersecting one or more objects in a plurality of objects displayed in the graphical user interface of the display device. A curve corresponding to the first path is displayed in the graphical user interface. An end of the path selection mode is detected. A selection state of the one or more objects is updated based on the curve, the selection state including a selected state and a deselected state. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120144328 | SYMBOLIC TREE NODE SELECTOR - A computer-implemented system member selector module is described. The member selector module comprises presentation module, a request detector, and a tree view updater. The presentation module presents a tree view representing hierarchically organized data comprising a plurality of member nodes. The request detector detects a request to apply a selection function to one or more member nodes. The tree view updater updates the tree view in response to the request and produces an updated tree view that identifies the one or more member nodes as parameters of the selection function. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120124063 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING, PREPARING AND USING PARAMETERIZED DATABASE QUERIES - A representative parameterized query in a second database query language is generated from a parameterized query in first database query language. By randomly generating a query in the first database query language, translating this query into the second database query language, and then identifying locations of relevant parameters in the translated query, parameter placeholders can then be substituted at the identified locations to provide a parameterized query in the second database query language. A representative parameterized query in the second database query language can be selected by randomly generating multiple parameterized queries and applying statistical methods including Monte Carlo methods. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120096057 | DEFAULT OBJECT FRAGMENTS - In a system and a method, a processor-implemented query module identifies a master metadata file. The processor-implemented query module retrieves one or more metadata fragment files having a global identifier matching a global identifier of the master metadata file from a communicatively coupled metadata repository. A processor-implemented generator module combines the master metadata file and the one or more metadata fragment files to form a combined metadata file. The processor-implemented generator module generates a metadata entity from the combined metadata file. The generated metadata entity includes property attributes and property attribute values designated as being owned in each of the master metadata file and the at least one metadata fragment file. A processor-implemented installer module installs the generated metadata entity for consumption by an application. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120072993 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MUTATING SENSITIVE DATA - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive data from a data source. Data mutation criteria is applied to designated data elements to produce mutated data that preserves an identifiable relationship between an original designated data element and a corresponding mutated data element. The data mutation criteria also produces mutated data with an identifiable relationship between related mutated data elements. The mutated data is loaded into a report and the report is displayed. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120016899 | MATCHING DATA FROM DISPARATE SOURCES - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive a first identification of two or more records that match and to search at least two sources of data to locate a set of potential matching records, based on element transformation to determine common characteristics of the two or more records. Further activities may include publishing the set of potential matching records, receiving a second identification of matching members of the set, and searching at least one repository to locate further matching records based on the second identification and the common characteristics. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20110295904 | CLUSTER IDENTIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to access individual lines of information included in a file stored in an electronic storage medium, to detect the existence of data clusters in the file based on neighboring cell content in a horizontal direction (corresponding to the individual lines), and in a vertical direction (orthogonal to the horizontal direction), to identify at least some of the data clusters as being associated with predefined table types (comprising vertical tables, horizontal tables, or cross tables), to merge some of the data clusters into section tables having common properties, and to transform the tables resulting from the merging activity, as well as remaining un-merged data clusters, into a single flat table. The stored file may comprise a spreadsheet file. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110289082 | Methods and Devices for Analysis of Carbon Footprints - In an embodiment, a method provides a carbon footprint comparison. In this method, a request to compare a first carbon footprint associated with a first user is received. Here, first profile attributes and the first carbon footprint associated with the first user are accessed. Additionally, second profile attributes associated with a second user are accessed. A match of a first number of the first profile attributes with a second number of the second profile attributes is identified. With the match, a strength of the match is calculated based on a number of identified matching profile attributes. A response to the request is then transmitted, and this response comprises the strength of the match and the first carbon footprint. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110202602 | ONLINE PRESENCE MANAGEMENT FOR WEB SITES - Systems and methods to provide online presence management are provided. A presence message is received from a browser associated with a user. One or more channels indicated by the presence message are determined, each channel being associated with an activity of the user. A presence state for each of the one or more channels are then determined, and a presence storage may be updated. Presence information comprising the presence state for the user may be provided to browsers of subscribers who subscribed to the same one or more channels. The presence information may be provided without an explicit request from the browsers. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202534 | Storage Model for Information Related to Decision Making Process - In an embodiment, a method is provided for storing information related to a decision making process. In this method, data items that are associated with a choice, a fact, and/or a decision are accessed. These data items are used in an application that provides a functionality associated with the decision making process. A relationship between the data items is then created based on a context in which the data items are used in the application. The data items and the relationship are stored in a common data structure that is accessible by a different application that provides a different functionality associated with the decision making process. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110145302 | Apparatus and Method for Transporting Business Intelligence Objects Between Business Intelligence Systems - A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to create a first export file that defines attributes and relationships associated with a first business intelligence object. A second export file that characterizes a second business intelligence object associated with the first business intelligence object is formed. The first export file and the second export file are combined into a composite export entity. The composite export entity is distributed. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145301 | Apparatus And Method For Producing A Virtual Database From Data Sources Exhibiting Heterogeneous Schemas - A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to define an individual publication schema for each heterogeneous source of a set of heterogeneous sources. Each individual publication schema specifies mapping rules between data from a heterogeneous source and a non-permanent structured instance of data. A non-permanent structured instance of data as defined by an individual publication schema is generated. An integration schema defining a set of integration rules for combining data from each non-permanent structured instance of data as defined by individual publication schema is established. A target non-permanent structured instance of data to include data from the plurality of heterogeneous sources based on at least one integration schema is formed. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110119273 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING RELEVANT CATEGORIES AND MEASURES FOR USE IN DATA ANALYSES - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a relevancy parameter. The relevancy parameter is searched in a category ensemble including a set of categories, where the category ensemble overlies a dataset. A first order of the set of categories is created based on the relevancy of the relevancy parameter to each category in the set of categories, where the relevancy is a degree of match to the relevancy parameter. A second order of the set of categories is created based on the merit of each category to partition the dataset. The first order and the second order are combined into a final order, which is returned. A measure in the category ensemble is searched based on the relevancy parameter. The measure is returned as a selected measure, where the selected measure is a codomain of a visualization depicting a portion of the dataset. | 05-19-2011 |
