REPRESENTING MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF A DATA TABLE
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Abstract
A method and associated systems for representing multidimensionality of a data table by combining a first set of data elements, units, or cells of the table into a multidimensional, expandable, second data unit. One or more processors of a computer system: determine a set of a first data units to be combined; determine a type of multidimensionality of the second data unit after combination; and combine, as a function of the type of multidimensionality, the first set of the first data units into the second data unit. The type of multidimensionality may be horizontal, vertical, or higher-dimensional (that is, greater than two-dimensional) dimensionality.
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33 Claims
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18. A method for representing multidimensionality of a data table, wherein the data table comprises a set of data cells, the method comprising:
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one or more processors of a computer system selecting a first subset of the set of data cells; the one or more processors defining a second data cell that is not comprised by the set of data cells; the one or more processors determining a type of multidimensionality of the second data cell, wherein the type of multidimensionality is a function of an internal arrangement of data cells of the first subset of data cells; the one or more processors configuring the second data cell to represent the first subset of data cells as a single multidimensional cell, wherein the configuring is performed as a function of the type of multidimensionality; the one or more processors replacing the first subset of data cells in the data table with the second data cell, such that the second data cell may be interactively expanded by a user into the first subset of data cells. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A computer program product, comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having a computer-readable program code stored therein, said program code configured to be executed by one or more processors of a computer system to implement a method for representing multidimensionality of a data table, wherein the data table comprises a set of data cells, the method comprising:
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the one or more processors selecting a first subset of the set of data cells; the one or more processors defining a second data cell that is not comprised by the set of data cells; the one or more processors determining a type of multidimensionality of the second data cell, wherein the type of multidimensionality is a function of an internal arrangement of data cells of the first subset of data cells; the one or more processors configuring the second data cell to represent the first subset of data cells as a single multidimensional cell, wherein the configuring is performed as a function of the type of multidimensionality; the one or more processors replacing the first subset of data cells in the data table with the second data cell, such that the second data cell may be interactively expanded by a user into the first subset of data cells. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A computer system comprising one or more processors, a memory coupled to said processor, and a computer-readable hardware storage device coupled to said processor, said storage device containing program code configured to be run by said processor via the memory to implement a method for representing multidimensionality of a data table, wherein the data table comprises a set of data cells, the method comprising:
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the one or more processors selecting a first subset of the set of data cells; the one or more processors defining a second data cell that is not comprised by the set of data cells; the one or more processors determining a type of multidimensionality of the second data cell, wherein the type of multidimensionality is a function of an internal arrangement of data cells of the first subset of data cells; the one or more processors configuring the second data cell to represent the first subset of data cells as a single multidimensional cell, wherein the configuring is performed as a function of the type of multidimensionality; the one or more processors replacing the first subset of data cells in the data table with the second data cell, such that the second data cell may be interactively expanded by a user into the first subset of data cells. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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