METHOD FOR MAINTAINING DATABASES INFORMATION ABOUT MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF AN ACTIVITY GENERATING, UPDATING VIRTUAL OLAP CUBE BASED ON MODIFIED STAR-SCHEMA

Patent №

US 8,315,972

Granted

2012-11-20

Filed 2003

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10670276

Challenges associated with maintaining information about multiple instances of an activity are addressed. Separate database tables are maintained for data corresponding to active instances of an organization's activities and for data corresponding to inactive instances of an organization's activities. Multiple database tables can be maintained for data corresponding to inactive instances of an activity. In another aspect, data from the active instances table and one or more inactive instances tables are processed to generate combined analysis data.

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.77
Planning0.77
AI hardware0.56
Machine learning0.08
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 145530140

Assignors

CHKODROV, GUEORGUI BONOV, JASON, RICHARD ZACHARY, REEL, ERIC ANTHONY, YU, CHUN

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

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