Patents by Inventor Robert Todd Hunter

Robert Todd Hunter 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).

  • Patent number: 8392358
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: NICE Systems Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III, William Banks Shulman
  • Patent number: 8112387
    Abstract: A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Merced Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III
  • Publication number: 20110213768
    Abstract: A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: MERCED SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III
  • Patent number: 7962535
    Abstract: A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Merced Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III
  • Publication number: 20110054971
    Abstract: A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: MERCED SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III
  • Patent number: 7856431
    Abstract: A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Merced Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III
  • Publication number: 20080097964
    Abstract: A received report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint. At least one query is generated to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection is processed. The processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint and having a particular value at the associated grain, and the processed result further includes facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate indicated by the processed result having the particular value at the associated grain and not satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Merced Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter
  • Publication number: 20080005078
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: MERCED SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, William Banks Shulman