MEASURE FACTORY

• US 20180121855A1
• Filed: 12/28/2017
• Published: 05/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dimensional Insight Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Dimensional Insight Incorporated
• Inventors: Clark, James, Powers, Frederick A., Jablonski, Daniel J., Gorman, Matthew J., Dealy, George M.
• Granted Patent: US 10,671,956 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A measure factory for generating analytic measures includes data sets representing business activities arranged as columnar arrays with each column being associated with a distinct source rule that applies to the column when it is used as a data source. The measure factory includes factory rules that govern which operations on available data sources may be executed under what conditions in the measure factory, such as by taking into account the source rules and other applicable factory rules. A factory rule execution hierarchy governs the execution of ready factory rules that lack dependency on other factory rules before executing ready factory rules that have dependency on other factory rules. A script generation facility generates a script to process the plurality of factory rules according to the factory rule execution hierarchy.

Claims

1. A measure factory setup user interface, comprising:

a source rule definition interface for defining, in the measure factory setup user interface, data set source rules that associate source data with a plurality of columns to define columnar data sets;

a factory rule definition interface for defining, in the measure factory setup user interface, factory rules that govern at least one of extraction, transformation, computation, and loading of data within the plurality of columnar data sets;

a display configuration interface for configuring, through the measure factory setup user interface, user-selectable dimensions within the columnar data sets around which a user interface is arranged for viewing measures of the data calculated from the columnar data sets that are output by the measure factory; and

a measure selection interface for selecting types of measures produced by the measure factory that are presented in the user interface for viewing measures of the data.

2. A measure factory user interface that facilitates defining a measure factory comprising defining data set source rules that associate data within a plurality of columnar data sets, factory rules that govern at least one of extraction, transformation, computation, and loading of data within and among the plurality of data sets, user-selectable dimensions within the data set around which a user interface for viewing an output of the measure factory is arranged, and measures that are presented in the user interface.