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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:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Greenfield, Waltham, MA (US);
Geof Fred Lyon, Rockport, MA (US);
Ron Vogl, Cambridge, MA (US);
Scott Feinstein, Peabody, MA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle International Corp., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A system and method for analyzing data is described, in which an application programming interface (API) is provided to permit an online analytical processing (OLAP) application to manipulate data and queries in model close to the business model the OLAP application was designed to support. A data server is provided to translated between the object-oriented representation and the native database query format. In one embodiment, a multidimensional virtual cursor is implementation to further simplify the logic of the OLAP application.