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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2007
Applicants:

Andrew C. Beers, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew W. Eldridge, Seattle, WA (US);

Patrick M. Hanrahan, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Jonathan E. Taylor, Stanford, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew C. Beers, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew W. Eldridge, Seattle, WA (US);

Patrick M. Hanrahan, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Jonathan E. Taylor, Stanford, CA (US);

Assignee:

Tableau Software, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of automatically generating models from a dataset includes multiple steps. First, a description of a view of a dataset is provided. The description includes multiple fields associated with the dataset. Next, a set of properties is determined for each of the multiple fields. Finally, the description is automatically translated into one or more models based on the respective properties of the multiple fields and a set of predefined heuristics.


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