METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATABASE INTERROGATION USING A USER-DEFINED TABLE

Patent №

US 5,752,016

Granted

1998-05-12

Filed 1995

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08428397

A graphical method of interrogating a computer database is provided, the database having a number of records and a number of dimensions in which each record is represented, the dimensions including headings and the method comprising providing a blank elementary select table, adding user-determined row and column headings and executing a program which fills in the cells with data corresponding to the set intersections of the row and column headings.

AI hardwareG06F 16/2428Y10S 707/99933

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Planning0.03
Machine learning0.02
Knowledge representation0.02
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.01
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

assignment · 75080784

Assignors

WHITTAKER, STEPHEN, HARRISON, KEITH, STENTON, PHILIP, PROUDIAN, DEREK, HADDOCK, NICHOLAS

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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