Patent Document ID: 20080097964
Application ID: 11552394
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of processing a report query to a dimensionally-modeled fact collection, the method comprising: receiving the report query, wherein the report query specifies a dimension coordinate constraint and an associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint; generating at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection; and processing a result of providing the at least one query to the dimensionally-modeled fact collection, wherein the processed result includes an indication of every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint, and wherein the processed result further includes: facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by the every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint, and facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection that are specified by at least one other dimension coordinate that does not satisfy the dimension coordinate constraint, wherein each of the at least one other dimension coordinate has a value at the associated grain that is the same as the value at the associated grain of one of the every dimension coordinate that does satisfy the dimension coordinate constraint.