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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1998
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 database management program executed by a server within a system for generating the report for the user includes a first subsystem for translating user requests for data, for generating dimensional queries for retrieving data from a database, and for processing user modifications to data types used in generating the report. A second subsystem coupled to the first subsystem reads data from the database, creates the data types, creates a mapping of the data types to the data, uses the mapping to translate user-initiated dimensional queries received from the first subsystem into Structured Query Language (SQL), and returns query results to the first subsystem. A third subsystem creates the report at a predetermined time.