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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2006
Applicants:
Glen Seeds, Ottawa, CA;
David Cushing, Osgoode, CA;
Henk Cazemier, Spencerville, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A member unique name (MUN) system and MUN translation system and method are provided. The MUN system comprises a dimension reference for defining the context in which the remaining portions of the MUN exist and a canonical business key for uniquely identifying a member across different dimensional data sources within a business enterprise. The MUN translation system comprises a translation selection module for selecting a MUN transformation and a collection of MUN transformations for transforming a MUN of a first data source into a MUN of the second data source.