Computer Associates Think, Inc.

Siebel Systems, Inc.

Platinum Technology, Inc.

James P Rogers

Edward Shaw-Lee Suen

Sunil Prabhakar Dixit

Samar Abbas Lotia

Eric Alan Musser

Techniques to provide dynamic multi-lingual support for software applications such as analytics, which typically rely on two different types of data, underlying data and metadata, to generate reports. The metadata defines the underlying data and a presentation layer displays the reports, which may be generated using presentation and metadata layer objects. Each such object may be defined by a language independent representation, which may in turn be associated with multiple display or language dependent representations (i.e., translations or translated strings) for multiple supported languages. One of the languages may be selected for use in a given session, and the display representations for the selected language are then bound to the language independent representations. The binding may be dynamically performed and is session-specific.

Single server instance, multi-lingual applications based on loosely coupled metadata and presentation layers

A method of joining two or more sets of data is provided wherein certain dimensions in the fact data are designated as being forced dimensions, and wherein for each forced dimension, a set of entries is created in the fact data each with the same key values in all of the dimensions other than the forced dimension, and each with a different member of the set of values existing in the fact data for that dimension, if and only if at least one entry exists in the fact data with the same set of key values in the dimensions other than the forced dimension.

Method and apparatus for instantiating records with missing data

A system is provided for selecting an appropriate aggregated fact data table to use as the basis for calculating an aggregation request from a set of stored aggregated fact data tables. An estimate is established of the amount of processing time required to aggregate each of the tables. The table with the lowest estimate is then used to perform the aggregation.

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James P Rogers