Patents by Inventor James Zhen Lin

James Zhen Lin 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).

  • Dynamic cube services
    Patent number: 7587410
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamic creation of an OLAP cube is disclosed which enables OLAP cubes to be created from custom database entities and custom database entity relationships. A created cube may be implemented on a local or remote data server using a variety of modular database protocols. A computer-readable medium and system for OLAP cube data permission derivation is also disclosed. OLAP cube data permissions are derived from category data associated with an OLAP database. The resulting cube data permissions are associated with data in the OLAP cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander A. Sourov, James Zhen Lin, Philip Yuen, Keshav Puttaswamy