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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1995
Tejwansh S Anand, Roswell, GA (US);
Michael A Georgantos, San Diego, CA (US);
Yih-Shiuan Hu, Alpharetta, GA (US);
James F Knutson, Roswell, GA (US);
Drew T Lettington, San Diego, CA (US);
Marshall P Lindsay, San Diego, CA (US);
Alan J Meyer, Riverside, CA (US);
Kenneth W O'Flaherty, Del Mar, CA (US);
Richard N Schubert, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter G Selfridge, Watchung, NJ (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A system and method for generating a report for a user which allows the user to make decisions, without requiring the user to understand or interpret data itself. A method of creating data types and data relationships within a database for generating the report for the user includes the steps of organizing the data within the database into columns of tables, providing a computer coupled to the database that executes an application program that generates the report, recording a business concept by the application program, recording an attribute associated with the business concept by the application program, displaying a list of the columns of tables in the database by the computer, recording a mapping of the attribute to one of the columns in the list, displaying a list of business indicators by the computer, recording a mapping of one of the business indicators to the column, joining the attribute table with the business indicator table so that the application program can use the additional table to create the report.