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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2015
Applicants:
Robert Brunel, Heidelberg, DE;
Jan Finis, Munich, DE;
Gerald Franz, Wiesloch, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAP SE, Walldorf, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24553 (2019.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/282 (2019.01);
Abstract
A system includes a stored table comprising a plurality of rows and at least one column, each of the plurality of rows associated with a node of a hierarchy, and one of the at least one columns implicity representing a position of a row's associated node within the hierarchy, wherein a Structured Query Language query is received and, response to the query, one or more values of the one of the at least one columns are determined and one or more properties of the hierarchy are determined based on the one or more values.