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DISAMBIGUATION OF TABULAR DATA

  • US 20100106750A1
  • Filed: 10/29/2008
  • Published: 04/29/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for creating tables of data, the method comprising:

  • identifying, in a tree representing a plurality of data entities and cardinal relationships between said data entities, a plurality of paths, wherein each of said paths includes a plurality of said data entities and any of said relationships between any of said data entities, wherein each of said pathsoriginates from the same one of said data entities,includes a terminal data entity, being one of said data entities that terminates said path, wherein said terminal data entity is at the to-many end of either of a one-to-many relationship and a many-to-many relationship with another of said data entities along said path, andincludes no other of said data entities that lie along any path descending from said terminal data entity and that is at the to-many end of either of a one-to-many relationship and a many-to-many relationship with another of said data entities that lie along said path descending from said terminal data entity; and

    creating on a computer-readable medium a separate table for each of said paths, wherein each of said tables includes a column per each of said data entities of said path for which said table was created.

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