Patent ID: 8793701
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture, comprising: a non-transitory machine-accessible medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: importing a first business intelligence (BI) block to a host analytics user interface (UI) by copying an instance of the first BI block from an analytical report to the host analytics user interface, the analytical report comprising one or more instances of the first BI block arranged in a hierarchy, each of the instances of the first BI block based on a combination of values of one or more dimensions identified as propagatable dimensions and synchronizable dimensions, the first BI block including at least one dimension designated as synchronizable and at least one dimension designated as propagatable; propagating at least one of the propagatable dimensions of the first BI block by storing the propagatable dimensions in a host data context associated with the host analytics UI; importing a second BI block to the host analytics UI, the second BI block including at least one dimension that is designated as synchronizable in common with the at least one propagatable dimension of the first BI block; and upon determining at least one of the propagatable dimensions of the first BI block that is in common with at least one of the synchronizable dimensions of the second BI block, propagating only the common propagatable dimensions of the first BI block from the host data context to the corresponding common synchronizable dimensions of the second BI block by modifying values of the common synchronizable dimension of the second BI block to match values of the corresponding propagatable dimension of the first BI block.