Patents Assigned to Business Objects Software
  • Visual hierarchy explorer
    Patent number: 8677279
    Abstract: A method and a system are described that involve generating a graphical tree hierarchy of a data structure and its accompanying metadata. In one embodiment, the method includes building a graphical tree hierarchy with a plurality of levels, wherein the graphical tree hierarchy includes at least a root node, a plurality of non-leaf nodes, and a plurality of leaf nodes. Further, the method includes aggregating at least a portion of the plurality of non-leaf nodes at a level of the graphical tree hierarchy, if a subset of the plurality of non-leaf nodes residing at the level exceeds a maximum number of nodes per the level. The method also includes scaling down the plurality of leaf nodes, if the plurality of levels of the graphical tree hierarchy exceeds a maximum number of levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Jeff Gan, Finlay Cannon, Ronald Wade Richards
  • MANAGING DATA CONTENT ON A COMPUTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140062897
    Abstract: Techniques for managing content on a computing device include identifying a data object including business data values defined in a structured format, the structured format including the business data values defined by two or more first dimensions and one or more second dimensions; determining a particular first dimension of the two or more first dimensions and a particular second dimension of the one or more second dimensions; generating a display grid that is displayable on a computing device, the display grid including a portion of the business data values corresponding to the particular first dimension and the particular second dimension; and preparing the display grid for display on the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Benjamin Müller, Aurélien Descamps
  • RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF SOFTWARE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140053147
    Abstract: A system for a rapid deployment of software system includes a rapid deployment preparation module and a rapid deployment module. The rapid deployment preparation module archives a machine-independent portion of a software system preinstalled and preconfigured on a source machine. The rapid deployment module unpacks and installs the machine-independent portion of the software system on a target machine. The rapid deployment module then reconstructs a machine-dependent portion of the software system on the target machine using the target machine specific data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Wai Wang, Ka-Lok Fung
  • Processing cobol data record schemas having disparate formats
    Patent number: 8656374
    Abstract: A computer readable medium is configured to receive a description of a COBOL copybook that can be represented in one of a plurality of disparate formats, to parse the COBOL copybook based on the description of the COBOL copybook, and to create a standardized data record schema based on the COBOL copybook. The description of the COBOL copybook includes information about the format of the COBOL copybook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrey Belyy, Alexander Ocher
  • CONTACT CLEANSER FOR MOBILE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20140046916
    Abstract: Reading at least one item of information stored on a mobile device that is associated with at least one contact stored on the mobile device and creating a cleaning request for the at least one read item of information associated with the at least one contact. Submitting the cleaning request to a remote web services provider for processing and receiving a response from the remote web services provider with a cleaned version of the at least one item of information associated with the at least one contact. Providing a user interface on the mobile device for viewing the cleaned version of the at least one item of information and in response to a user selection of the cleaned version of the at least one item of information, updating the corresponding unclean item of information stored on the mobile device to the cleaned version of said item of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software LTD.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Woody, Prasanthi Thatavarthy, Babu Sathyanarayana, Terrance Mihm
  • MOBILE DRILLDOWN VIEWER FOR STANDARDIZED DATA
    Publication number: 20140047310
    Abstract: Retrieving and displaying data from a remote data storage system on mobile computing devices via a user interface for browsing data stored on the data storage system. In response to a user selection of a dataset stored on the data storage system, a top level report grouping and summarizing the data of the selected dataset is displayed in which the top level report includes links for drilling down into one of the groups of data of the selected dataset. In response to a user selection of a link in the top level report, a lower level report grouping and summarizing the data of the group(s) corresponding to the selected link is displayed. The lower level report includes links for drilling down into the groups of data within the group(s) corresponding to the selected link and may also include links for drilling back up into the higher level data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventor: Alexei Potiagalov
  • Dynamic interface to read database through remote procedure call
    Patent number: 8645502
    Abstract: Data read from a database may be transferred to an external system utilizing a dynamic interface, through a remote procedure call (RPC) communication mechanism. In particular embodiments within the SAP environment, data is transferred utilizing an executable program in a high level language such as Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP). Data may be streamed from the ABAP executable program directly to a Data Services Job engine via a NetWeaver remote function call (NWRFC) C/C++ connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventor: Ajit Dash
  • Displaying visualizations linked to one or more data source queries
    Patent number: 8645853
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a Graphical User Interface with a plurality of visualization types and a semi-structured workspace. A drag-and-drop of a visualization type into a drop zone in the semi-structured workspace is received. The drop zone corresponds to a location in the semi-structured workspace where an associated visualization is displayed. A link is created between the associated visualization and a query to a data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Edward Prinsen, Philip Coldrey Lo, Julian Lars Gosper, Chuen Chi Yau
  • MATCHING DATA FROM DISPARATE SOURCES
    Publication number: 20140032585
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive a first identification of two or more records that match and to search at least two sources of data to locate a set of potential matching records, based on element transformation to determine common characteristics of the two or more records. Further activities may include publishing the set of potential matching records, receiving a second identification of matching members of the set, and searching at least one repository to locate further matching records based on the second identification and the common characteristics. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Udayakumar Dhansingh, Louay Gargoum, Tony O'Donnell
  • Electonic processing of context-aware business events
    Patent number: 8631420
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for electronic processing of context-aware business events are described. According to one aspect, business events are enriched with more business semantics by encapsulating business contexts that define the events' producing environment. The produced context-aware events include a structure of context items describing with system and application parameters the producing environment when the events originally happened. During reconstruction of the structure of context items, the contextual business information is retrieved and can be included in the business events to provide the event consumer with more information about the business event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Han, Mark McSherry, Antonio Rigon, Donal Tobin
  • Aligning records for visual comparison
    Patent number: 8626773
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods for aligning records for visual comparison are described herein. In one aspect, the method includes identifying a plurality of records. A reference record is selected from the plurality of records. One or more non-reference record is merged into the reference record to generate a merged reference record. The merged reference record includes one or more fields missing in the reference record. The missing fields are included as blank fields from the non-reference records. The merged reference record is merged into a non-reference record to generate the merged non-reference record. The merged non-reference record includes fields missing in the non-reference record. Missing fields are included as blank fields. The merged records are displayed on a user interface in a card view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey Woody, Prasanthi Thatavarthy
  • Server independent deployment of plug-ins
    Patent number: 8613007
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for deploying one or more plug-ins. The method and systems involve receiving a request for generating a graphical user interface at a client computing device, the request includes a configuration for flash content of the graphical user interface, identifying a one or more plug-ins associated with the request and at least one extension of the identified one or more plug-ins, the one or more plug-ins having been deployed at a plurality of content servers across plurality of platform types and stored in a plug-in repository, retrieving the identified one or more plug-ins based on the extension of the identified one or more plug-ins and generating the requested graphical user interface based on the retrieved one or more plug-ins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Reghu Ram Thanumalayan, Indresh Ms
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMPLIFYING DATA ACCESS BETWEEN TIERS IN A MULTI-TIER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130332486
    Abstract: A system and method for simplifying data access between tiers in a multi-tier system is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is provided for receiving a request for service from a browser at a generic data access object (GDAO) layer; generating, by use of a data processor, a single, shared, generic data transfer object (GDTO) at the GDAO layer; calling through to a database tier, the database tier providing database metadata; and using the database metadata to include result data in the GDTO and return the GDTO in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Luan O'Carroll
  • Dashboard evaluator
    Patent number: 8595173
    Abstract: A dashboard evaluator is disclosed. The dashboard evaluator evaluates a dashboard design for its effectiveness in providing the information. The dashboard evaluator determines a compliance score to indicate a level of compliance with dashboard design principles. The design principles may be tailored to a specific purpose and/or user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Leo Chi-Lok Yu, Zhiyong Gong
  • Logical address based object oriented programming
    Patent number: 8595699
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for generating resource with URI. The methods and systems involve receiving a request for processing a data, the request including an uniform resource identifier (URI), based on the URI, sending the request to an associated resource handler, instantiating set of data resources associated with the URI by calling a resource factory and processing the request by passing the set of data resources to a specific application programming interface for presenting instantiated set of data resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Luan O'Carroll, Qiang Han
  • Mapping non-relational database objects into a relational database model
    Patent number: 8589450
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, information may be received about a non-relational database object, such as an InfoSet, InfoSet query, or Advanced Business Application Programming (“ABAP”) function for an enterprise resource planning system. The non-relational database object may then be mapped into a relational database model, such as a model associated with a business intelligence platform. As a result, Structured Query Language (“SQL”) inputs from a business intelligence platform may be used create reports based on information in an enterprise resource planning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Xiaohui Xue, Mokrane Amzal, Mythili Gopalakrishnan
  • CLASSIFYING DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING
    Publication number: 20130304740
    Abstract: Techniques for data classification include matching one or more attributes of a commodity with one or more terms of a plurality of terms in a word matrix; generating, based on the matching, a vector for the commodity; and identifying, based on the vector, one or more classification regions that each define a classification of the commodity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventor: Sherif Botros
  • Categorical Filtering of Data
    Publication number: 20130304766
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source, where the dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure that represents the dataset is built. A first set of merit values for the first set of categories is calculated. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is returned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventor: Davor Cubranic
  • Answer-augmented query suggestion
    Patent number: 8577862
    Abstract: A system includes reception of a partial query, determination of one or more previously-selected query phrases based on the partial query, determination, for each of the one or more previously-selected query phrases, of a dataset of a data source, determination, for each dataset determined for each of the one or more previously-selected query phrases, of a plurality of columns, and presentation, for each of the one or more previously-selected query phrases, of the previously-selected query phrase, the dataset determined for the previously-selected query phrase, and the columns determined for the dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Petschulat, Luke Kysow
  • Electronic display with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D699251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Santhosh Rao, Suvodeep Das, Radha Phani Sunkara