Patents by Inventor Amy Spelman Davis

Amy Spelman Davis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method to reduce large OLAP cube size using cell selection rules
    Patent number: 9460172
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques for providing one or more reduced-size rule cubes indicating cell rules. A computer-program product embodied in a machine-readable storage medium includes instructions to cause a computing device to select a cell rule to include in a rule cube based on applicability of the cell rule to a selected portion of a data cube; analyze the cell rule to identify a wildcarded dimension in a specification of cells of the data cube that are subject to the cell rule; and generate the rule cube indicating applicability of the cell rule to the selected portion of the data cube, wherein a cell of the rule cube corresponds to multiple cells of the data cube, and wherein the wildcarded dimension of the rule cube is reduced in length in comparison to a length of the wildcarded dimension of the data cube. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Qing Gong, Amy Spelman Davis, Ryan Norris, Enrico Stevanoni
  • METHOD TO REDUCE LARGE OLAP CUBE SIZE USING CELL SELECTION RULES
    Publication number: 20140279833
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques for providing one or more reduced-size rule cubes indicating cell rules. A computer-program product embodied in a machine-readable storage medium includes instructions to cause a computing device to select a cell rule to include in a rule cube based on applicability of the cell rule to a selected portion of a data cube; analyze the cell rule to identify a wildcarded dimension in a specification of cells of the data cube that are subject to the cell rule; and generate the rule cube indicating applicability of the cell rule to the selected portion of the data cube, wherein a cell of the rule cube corresponds to multiple cells of the data cube, and wherein the wildcarded dimension of the rule cube is reduced in length in comparison to a length of the wildcarded dimension of the data cube. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Qing Gong, Amy Spelman Davis, Ryan Norris, Enrico Stevanoni