Patent ID: 7779018
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of making a presentation of data retrieved by submitting a query to a database including data categorized as a measures-type, which includes data representing amounts, and data categorized as a dimensions-type, which includes data along which measures-type data can be arrayed, said method comprising: receiving, from a computer-user interface device, a question including a plurality of data items; comparing the plurality of data items in the question to a set of reference data items in the database, said reference data items belonging to either of the measures-type category or the dimensions-type category; identifying, based on said comparing, a second of the plurality of data items in the question that is included in the set of reference data items and belongs to the dimensions-type category; determining whether a first, predefined association exists between the first data item and the second data item; in the event that a first, predefined association exists between the first data item and the second data item: in the event that no first, predefined association exists between the first data item and the second data item: