Patent Document ID: 7856431
Application ID: 11552394
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of processing a request including a specification of a dimension coordinate constraint and a specification of a particular associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint, to a dimensionally-modeled fact collection, the method comprising: receiving the specification of the dimension coordinate constraint and the specification of the particular associated grain for the dimension coordinate constraint; processing an indication of a fact reporting mode, the fact reporting mode being selectable by a user designation; 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: fettered facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection, the fettered facts being specified by the every dimension coordinate satisfying the dimension coordinate constraint, and in response to the indication of the fact reporting mode indicating an unfettered mode, automatically including unfettered facts of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection, the unfettered facts being 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; and returning the processed result in response to the request; the unfettered facts providing an additional type of selectable information for the returned processed result that is not strictly bound by the dimension coordinate constraint to account for a situation in which at least one value at a selected grain level is related to more than one dimension coordinate at another grain level over a time period of interest.