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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110041048 | DEMONSTRATION TOOL FOR A BUSINESS INFORMATION ENTERPRISE SYSTEM According to some embodiments, demonstration data is received via a front-end application associated with a business information enterprise system. The demonstration data may then be interpreted in accordance with at least one rule to generate business data. A query may... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040802 | SHARED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ELEMENTS Some aspects relate to reception of a selection of a business intelligence report element in a first business intelligence report of a first file format, creation of a serialized description of the business intelligence report element in a second file format based on a ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110016158 | GENERATION OF DIMENSIONAL METADATA BASED ON RDBMS DATA Creation of a multi-dimensional metadata model based on relational tables and data stored in the relational tables may include determination of a plurality of groups of columns of the relational tables based at least in part on the data stored in the relational tables, ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100312746 | SITUATIONAL RESOURCE RATING A computer-implemented system may include determination of a similarity of a semantic projection of a set of interests of a first user to a semantic projection of a first resource, wherein the semantic projection of the set of interests of the first user and the semanti... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100287223 | FUNCTIONALLY-DEPENDENT ANALYSIS OBJECTS A system may include a database of physical data tables, a logical database schema of logical entities associated with the physical data tables, and an abstraction layer comprising a plurality of dimension objects mapped to the logical entities, at least one of the plur... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287185 | GENERATION OF LOGICAL DATABASE SCHEMA REPRESENTATION BASED ON SYMBOLIC BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE QUERY A system to query a database based on a logical schema of the database and an abstraction of the logical database schema, the abstraction including a plurality of objects and one or more properties associating one or more of the plurality of objects to one or more other... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100268695 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH HYBRID PAGED ENCODING AND DECODING According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitation a compression of information. In some cases, uncompressed data may be divided into a plurality of portions. A first data density value may be determined for... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262443 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLLABORATIVE STRATEGY EDITOR According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate implementation of an enterprise strategy. In some cases, information defining a strategy map is received from users via a graphical user interface collaborati... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100228787 | ONLINE DATA VOLUME DELETION A system to delete a data volume may include storage of a plurality of data pages of the data volume of a data area into a cache, prevention of writing of data pages to the data volume, and designation of each of the plurality of data pages in the cache as modified. The... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100211895 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION AND INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DATA A method, system and means, the method includes defining a visualization dashboard, including defining at least one chart to include in the visualization dashboard and a range of data to occupy the at least one chart; defining data connections to at least one webservice... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100198823 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY GENERATE ENHANCED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SELECTED WEB TABLE According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate use of a data sharing web server remote from a user device. According to some embodiments, information from a remote web resource server may be received at th... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100169873 | BUSINESS SCOPE DEPENDENT ADD-ON CONTENT PROVISIONING A system and method to install a software enhancement supplement of a main software product, the method including receiving an installation recommendation for the supplement having content including a business configuration (BC) object on a customer/service provider sid... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO CREATE A MULTIDIMENSIONAL EXPRESSION CALCULATED MEMBER IN A SPREADSHEET CELL According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate use of a spreadsheet application to access information stored in a multidimensional data source. Some embodiments include receiving, at an analyzer module, a ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169387 | ANALYTICS ENABLEMENT OBJECTS A method and system, the method may include generating a change notification in response to a change of at least one attribute associated with at least one node of a host business object (BO); and updating, based on the generated change notification, an analytic enablem... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100153940 | TRANSPORTABLE REFACTORING OBJECT According to some embodiments, a refactoring object is determined in connection with modification of at least one code-based object. The refactoring object may be transported to a set of systems in a distributed system landscape, and modifications of code-based objects ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153919 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING SOFTWARE STANDS IN A SOFTWARE PRODUCTION LANDSCAPE According to some embodiments, a first container, representing a first uniquely addressable physical location in a software production landscape, may be associated with a first series of stand snippets related to a software product. Similarly, a second container, repres... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153917 | SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION CONTROL WHEREIN CONTAINERS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL STORAGE OF SOFTWARE APPLICATION VERSIONS IN A SOFTWARE PRODUCTION LANDSCAPE According to some embodiments, a source version of a software product may be established in connection with a software production landscape. A first container, representing a first uniquely addressable physical location in the software production landscape, may then be ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153870 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN EVENT VISUALIZATION According to some embodiments, an event query to an item supply chain event database is processed such that a trace extraction algorithm will be executed to determine extracted trace data. A plurality of location nodes may then be graphically represented on an interacti... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100153466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE REPORT CREATION FOR NON-RELATIONAL DATABASES According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate report generation. In some cases, a list of nodes associated with a non-relational database may be gathered, the nodes in the list being oriented as a graph r... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150342 | ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION OF RECORDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH GROUP ACCESS VECTORS According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate an appropriate access to secure information by a plurality of users categorized into a plurality of groups. For example, a group access vector may be determin... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100145942 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MAPPING LARGE OBJECT DATA CONTENT IN A DATABASE TABLE TO A WORK AREA According to some embodiments, a programming language in an application server may include access to different database server implementations, wherein the programming language accesses content of database tables via work areas derived from the database tables. A databa... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138448 | CATEGORY-BASED NAME SCHEMES IN PARSING FRAMEWORKS According to some embodiments, categories and an associated category graph may be determined for a parsing framework. Moreover, a type for the parsing framework may be defined, wherein at least one category is automatically created and inserted into the category graph f... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100131539 | GENERATION OF QUERY LANGUAGE PARAMETER FILE Some aspects include determination of a data structure including a plurality of query language configuration parameters and at least two values associated with each of the plurality of query language configuration parameters, and generation, based on the data structure,... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131491 | DETERMINATION OF GRAPHICAL FORMAT TO PRESENT SEARCH RESULTS Some aspects include reception of a plurality of search results, selection of a graphical format in which to present the search results from a plurality of graphical formats based on metadata of the plurality of search results, and presentation of the plurality of searc... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100125797 | CLIENT INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION FROM A SUPPLEMENTAL SERVER INTO A PORTAL According to some embodiments, a client accesses enterprise portal content from an enterprise portal server. The client also accesses supplemental content directly from a supplemental server. The supplemental server may, for example, be associated with a browser-based c... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100125600 | PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZED RETRIEVE TRANSFORMATION NODES Systems, methods, computer program code, and means are provided for processing retrieve requests received in a business software system. Pursuant to some embodiments, a retrieve request is processed by identifying that the requested node is a retrieve transformation nod... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100121924 | ASSOCIATION OF A GROUPWARE OBJECT WITH SEQUENTIALLY-UPDATED CONTENT ITEMS A system may include identification of a relation between a standards-compliant groupware object and one or more sequentially-updated content items, and creation of the groupware object. The groupware object may include a first Uniform Resource Identifier for subscribin... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100115443 | RULE-BASED PRESENTATION OF LOG MESSAGES ON A GRAPHIC TIMELINE Systems, methods, computer program code, and means are provided for the rules-based presentation of log messages on a graphical timeline. Pursuant to some embodiments, a request to view log file information is received, and a plurality of log file messages are retrieved... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100114935 | POPULATING A MULTI-RELATIONAL ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK WITH DISPARATE SOURCE DATA Some aspects include association of fields of a data source with one or more entity identities, one or more relation identities, and one or more attributes corresponding, respectively, to entity identities, relation identities and facet attributes defined in metadata of... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100114897 | INDEXING AND SEARCHING A NETWORK OF MULTI-FACETED ENTITY DATA Some aspects include determination of a first set of attribute-value pairs associated with an entity, the first set of attribute-value pairs comprising a plurality of attributes and first values, and respective ones of the first values corresponding to each of the plura... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100100802 | CONTEXTUAL REPORT ELEMENT MAPPING TO WEB SERVICE INPUT PARAMETER Some aspects include selection of a cell of a report section, the cell associated with a data dimension and with a context of the report section, and association of the cell with an input parameter of a software service. Aspects may include identification of a contextua... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100100494 | DETERMINATION OF PATHS BETWEEN ENTITIES IN A MULTI-RELATIONSHIP SOCIAL NETWORK Some aspects include determination of a source entity and a target entity from a plurality of entities, wherein a first one of the plurality of entities is associated with a second one of the plurality of entities by a first type of social relationship and a third one o... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100094844 | DEDUCTION OF ANALYTIC CONTEXT BASED ON TEXT AND SEMANTIC LAYER A system includes reception of text, extraction of a plurality of linguistic entities and associated linguistic entity categories based on the text; determination of one or more semantic objects of a semantic layer based on the linguistic entity categories, and generati... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100094843 | ASSOCIATION OF SEMANTIC OBJECTS WITH LINGUISTIC ENTITY CATEGORIES A system includes determination of a name of a semantic object associated with a semantic layer, determination of a linguistic entity category associated with the name, and storage, in association with the semantic layer, of an association between the semantic object an... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100094823 | ENHANCED LINEAR PRESENTATION OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON SEARCH RESULT METADATA Some aspects include reception of a search result associated with a first value of a first type of metadata and a second value of a second type of metadata, and creation of a view comprising a graphical indication of the search result at coordinates (A1, B 04/15/2010 | |
| 20100057776 | DYNAMIC EXTENSION FIELDS FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS A system may include generation of extension metadata defining an extension field of a core node of a business object, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhanced metadata based on core metadata of the business object and the e... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057771 | DYNAMIC NODE EXTENSIONS AND EXTENSION FIELDS FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS A system may include generation of extension metadata defining an extension node associated with a core node of a business object and extension fields associated with the extension node, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhan... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057504 | FUNCTIONAL EXTENSIONS FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS A system may include generation of extension metadata defining a functional extension associated with a business object, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhanced metadata based on core metadata of the business object and the... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049734 | FAST SEARCH VIEWS OVER BUSINESS OBJECTS A method and means, the method includes selecting a plurality of data sources having attributes to be included in a view entity; defining join conditions on the selected plurality of data sources; defining a set of attributes for the view entity by selecting attributes ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049714 | FAST SEARCH REPLICATION SYNCHRONIZATION PROCESSES A method and medium for performing a replication process are provided. The method includes receiving a request to perform an initial load of a first persistence of at least one business object node to replicate the at least one business object node to a second persisten... | 02/25/2010 |
