Patents Assigned to Business Objects
  • Shared business intelligence elements
    Patent number: 8234313
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to reception of a selection of a business intelligence report element in a first business intelligence report of a first file format, creation of a serialized description of the business intelligence report element in a second file format based on a business intelligence report element data model, reception of an instruction to add the business intelligence report element to a second business intelligence report of a third file format, and addition of the business intelligence report element to the second business intelligence report in the third file format based on the serialized description of the business intelligence report element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Alain Bonatti, Stéphane Lecercle, Françoise Corvaisier
  • Apparatus and method for defining and processing publication objects
    Patent number: 8234569
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to create a publication object, associate a set of report templates with the publication object, and define a set of recipients for the publication object. A format and a destination for each report template associated with the publication object is defined. A delivery rule for the publication object is also defined, where the delivery rule specifies a condition for delivery of distinct reports to the set of recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Terry Wayne Penner
  • Generation of logical database schema representation based on symbolic business intelligence query
    Patent number: 8229952
    Abstract: A system to query a database based on a logical schema of the database and an abstraction of the logical database schema, the abstraction including a plurality of objects and one or more properties associating one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more others of the plurality of objects. The system includes reception of a query including a first plurality of objects of the abstraction, a first one or more properties associating one of the first plurality of objects with another one of the plurality of objects, and two or more instances of a first one of the first plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Cras, Juan Francisco Calvente, Yucheng Sha, Serge Thepaut
  • Method and system for specifying, preparing and using parameterized database queries
    Patent number: 8219575
    Abstract: A representative parameterized query in a second database query language is generated from a parameterized query in first database query language. By randomly generating a query in the first database query language, translating this query into the second database query language, and then identifying locations of relevant parameters in the translated query, parameter placeholders can then be substituted at the identified locations to provide a parameterized query in the second database query language. A representative parameterized query in the second database query language can be selected by randomly generating multiple parameterized queries and applying statistical methods including Monte Carlo methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Joseph Wong
  • Assessing relevant categories and measures for use in data analyses
    Patent number: 8219560
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a relevancy parameter. The relevancy parameter is searched in a category ensemble including a set of categories, where the category ensemble overlies a dataset. A first order of the set of categories is created based on the relevancy of the relevancy parameter to each category in the set of categories, where the relevancy is a degree of match to the relevancy parameter. A second order of the set of categories is created based on the merit of each category to partition the dataset. The first order and the second order are combined into a final order, which is returned. A measure in the category ensemble is searched based on the relevancy parameter. The measure is returned as a selected measure, where the selected measure is a codomain of a visualization depicting a portion of the dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Saurabh Abhyankar, Jean-Luc Agathos, Virgile Chongvilay, Davor Cubranic, Julian Lars Gosper
  • Apparatus and method for receiving a report
    Patent number: 8204895
    Abstract: A method of receiving a report includes submitting a search query, receiving a proposed abstract query and report search results, and accepting a choice between submitting the proposed abstract query to generate a report and designating an existing report from the report search results. A report is then received in accordance with the choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Ricardo Polo-Malouvier, Grégoire Jean Antoine Cacheux, Gilles Vergnory-Mion, Mark Allerton
  • Detecting and applying database schema changes to reports
    Patent number: 8204848
    Abstract: A system and method to detect database schema changes are described. In various embodiments, a method of the embodiments detects database schema changes via triggers. In various embodiments, the changes are detected by comparing database schemas and determining modifications to database tables and database columns thereof. In various embodiments, the detected changes are applied to a report by generating a parse tree relevant for the modifications to database tables and columns; and traversing the tree to produce a statement to change the report to be relevant for the modifications to database tables and columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventor: Anand Sinha
  • Apparatus and method for calculating and visualizing targets
    Patent number: 8200732
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium includes executable instructions to define a target value, define an achievement boundary range, define specific values for the achievement boundary range, and combine the target value, achievement boundary range, and specific values associated with the achievement boundary range to form an absolute target metric object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd
    Inventor: Michael Gary Player
  • SYMBOLIC TREE NODE SELECTOR
    Publication number: 20120144328
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system member selector module is described. The member selector module comprises presentation module, a request detector, and a tree view updater. The presentation module presents a tree view representing hierarchically organized data comprising a plurality of member nodes. The request detector detects a request to apply a selection function to one or more member nodes. The tree view updater updates the tree view in response to the request and produces an updated tree view that identifies the one or more member nodes as parameters of the selection function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: John O'byrne
  • Apparatus and method for categorical filtering of data
    Patent number: 8195695
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source. The dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure with nodes connected by edges is built to represent the dataset. A first set of merit values is calculated for the first set of categories. Each merit value is a measure of how efficient a category is in filtering data. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is then returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Davor Cubranic
  • Query-time and view-time security for semantic layer
    Patent number: 8190631
    Abstract: Aspects may include determination of a first security profile associated with a user and an information space, the information space comprising metadata indicating a plurality of objects mapped to logical entities of a hierarchical data structure, reception of a request from the user for an interface for creating queries to the hierarchical data structure, and determination, based on the first security profile, of a first subset of the plurality of objects based on which the user is allowed to create queries. A query is executed based on one or more of the first subset of objects, data of the hierarchical data structure is received in response to execution of the query, a second subset of the received data which the user is allowed to view is determined based on the first security profile, and the second subset of the received data is presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Christian Ah-Soon, Marc Ferenczi, Fabien Kobus
  • Apparatus and method for visualizing data within a decomposition graph
    Patent number: 8190620
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a decomposition graph visualization with a set of nodes. A selection of two or more measures is received. A measure visualization is generated for each node to illustrate a relationship between the two or more measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd
    Inventors: Bruno Andre Marie Dumant, Alexis-Jean Laurent Naïbo, Jean-Claude Grosselin
  • Mixed techniques for HTML crosstab rendering
    Patent number: 8185818
    Abstract: What is described is a method and system for rendering HTML tables and crosstabs when insufficient data is available about the structure of the tables and data elements are positioned relative to the top-left corner of the table and not their first container, which is table data (TD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects S.A.
    Inventor: Saeed Jahankhani
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING, PREPARING AND USING PARAMETERIZED DATABASE QUERIES
    Publication number: 20120124063
    Abstract: A representative parameterized query in a second database query language is generated from a parameterized query in first database query language. By randomly generating a query in the first database query language, translating this query into the second database query language, and then identifying locations of relevant parameters in the translated query, parameter placeholders can then be substituted at the identified locations to provide a parameterized query in the second database query language. A representative parameterized query in the second database query language can be selected by randomly generating multiple parameterized queries and applying statistical methods including Monte Carlo methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Joseph Wong
  • Apparatus and method for distribution of a report with dynamic write-back to a data source
    Patent number: 8180795
    Abstract: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to integrate a write-back module in a report document, to publish to a recipient the report document and metadata identifying the recipient, and to update a data source based on received write-back information, including the metadata identifying the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Todd Russell Hanna, Ryan Wayne Hanna, Ken Chi Ho Wong, Terry Penner
  • Apparatus and method for persistent report serving
    Patent number: 8166350
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium is configured to receive a report processing request at a hierarchical report processor. The hierarchical report processor includes a parent process and at least one child process executing on a single processing unit, and is configured to process the report processing request as a task on the single processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: David John Simpson, Philipp Ziegler
  • Identifying patterns of significance in numeric arrays of data
    Patent number: 8166064
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer method and system for identifying significance of patterns across a plurality of data patterns, which involves identifying pattern types of the plurality of data patterns, determining a relative pattern significance factor to compare the pattern types. Determining the relative pattern significance factor further involves calculating a percentage change of an identified outlier from a median for a outlier pattern, calculating a value of a step change as a percentage of a last value of a step preceding the step change for a step change pattern and calculating a percentage change from a start value on the fitted curve to an end value on the fitted curve for a trend pattern. A ranked list of the pattern types are returned based on their corresponding relative pattern significant factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventor: John MacGregor
  • System and method of machine-aided information extraction rule development
    Patent number: 8165987
    Abstract: An automatic rule generation system generates rules for fact extraction. A rule generation module receives a sample and generates a rule from the sample. A rule relaxation module generates a relaxed rule from the rule. A rule testing module generates a reverse index from a corpus, applies the relaxed rule to the reverse index, and generates text segments. An information extraction module generates modified text segments from the relaxed rule and the text segments. A candidate suggestion module performs a candidate generation process: if the candidate generation process generates no candidates, the candidate suggestion module signals the rule relaxation module to generate a further relaxed rule to use as the relaxed rule. A user evaluates a candidate and provides the candidate as an additional sample for the automatic rule generation system to generate another rule to use as the rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects S.A.
    Inventor: Alpha Kamchiu Luk
  • DEFAULT OBJECT FRAGMENTS
    Publication number: 20120096057
    Abstract: In a system and a method, a processor-implemented query module identifies a master metadata file. The processor-implemented query module retrieves one or more metadata fragment files having a global identifier matching a global identifier of the master metadata file from a communicatively coupled metadata repository. A processor-implemented generator module combines the master metadata file and the one or more metadata fragment files to form a combined metadata file. The processor-implemented generator module generates a metadata entity from the combined metadata file. The generated metadata entity includes property attributes and property attribute values designated as being owned in each of the master metadata file and the at least one metadata fragment file. A processor-implemented installer module installs the generated metadata entity for consumption by an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Business objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Scott Cameron
  • System and method of data cleansing using rule based formatting
    Patent number: 8150814
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method for data cleansing using rule based formatting. The method includes tokenizing and parsing a first input data and a second input data. The method further includes including a first token in a first output data if a first formatting rule component in a formatting rule is a first valid index to said first tokenized input data. The method further includes including a second token in a second output data if said first formatting rule component in the formatting rule is a second valid index to said second tokenized input data. The method further includes formatting said first output data and said second output data according to the formatting rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Steven E. Felsheim