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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2006
Todd O. Dampier, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Todd Hunter, Iii, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Banks Shulman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd O. Dampier, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Todd Hunter, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Banks Shulman, San Francisco, CA (US);
NICE Systems Technologies Inc., Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
A method/system considers the phenomenon of slowly changing dimensions in the process of reporting on facts of a collection of facts organized as, or otherwise accessible according to, a dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A report query specifies a temporal mode, and the specified temporal mode is processed to determine a time extent descriptor (e.g., in view of at least one of a context, in which the report query is made, and at least one dimension coordinate constraint). A processed result of querying the dimensionally-modeled fact collection includes appropriate indications of dimension coordinates in view of the time information from the time extent descriptor.