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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
May. 31, 2005
Dave L. Sullivan, Canoga Park, CA (US);
Paul N. Weinberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David E. Brookler, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Philip A. Tinari, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Richard T. Endo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Nathan F. Yospe, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Dave L. Sullivan, Canoga Park, CA (US);
Paul N. Weinberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David E. Brookler, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Philip A. Tinari, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Richard T. Endo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Nathan F. Yospe, Los Angeles, CA (US);
SAP, AG, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
One or more embodiments of the invention enable a user to create multiple non-redundant views using metadata targeted at a specific audience that comprises language, regional, regulatory and/or cultural specific values. The word 'audience' for the purposes of this specification means a group of document consumers such as people or computers that are associated with a language, country, region, regulation or culture. Audience specific data therefore is data targeted at a specific audience and audience specific metadata is related to the descriptive information related to the data, such as a table name or a field name for example. At least one embodiment of the invention makes use of rule-based inheritance in providing metadata values via layers that comprise audience specific data.