Patent Document ID: 8655861
Application ID: 13545494

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, with a data access service, an input query from an enterprise software application, wherein the data access service is positioned between the enterprise software application and a multidimensional data source; parsing the input query into a parse tree; generating an abstract syntax tree based on the parse tree, the abstract syntax tree comprising input query elements and multidimensional expression query elements based on the input query; performing an evaluation of metadata comprised in the multidimensional expression query elements of the abstract syntax tree; restructuring the abstract syntax tree based on the evaluation of the metadata; executing a query based on the restructured abstract syntax tree on the multidimensional data source; and retrieving a query result set from the multidimensional data source comprising results that are responsive to the restructured abstract syntax tree.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the evaluation of metadata comprised in the multidimensional expression query elements of the abstract syntax tree comprises evaluating one or more expressions in the abstract syntax tree to determine what hierarchies provide context to one or more functions that correspond to the one or more expressions.