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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:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rakesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Sunita Sarawagi, Maharashtra, IN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A system and method for explaining why an exceptional element in a multidimensional database is exceptional by presenting the element using at least two of the dimensions responsible for the exception. Maximal terms are identified in the monolithic equation that is used to identify exceptions, and based on the maximal terms the dimensions that are to be displayed are selected as a visual indication of why a displayed element is exceptional.