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Report generation system and method

  • US 5,423,033 A
  • Filed: 09/30/1992
  • Issued: 06/06/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a computer system including a display for displaying tabular or graphical information, and a memory for storing a database of transactions, each transaction having a plurality of attributes, each attribute having a value, a method for generating a secondary report, containing at least one transaction, directly from a primary report displayed on the display, the method comprising the steps of:

  • providing a primary report filter having attributes with specified values;

    applying the primary report filter to the database of transactions to produce a primary report, the primary report containing at least one dynamically created data element, each such data element summarizing a subset of selected transactions from the database of transactions, but not existing as a transaction in the database;

    displaying the primary report on the display;

    receiving a user input selecting one of the data elements contained in the primary report;

    generating a secondary report filter from the selected data element, the secondary report filter having attributes with values that correspond to the values of the attributes for the subset of transactions summarized by the selected data element;

    applying the secondary report filter to the database of transactions to generate a secondary report, the secondary report containing all transactions having attributes with values specified by the secondary report filter, such that the transactions in the secondary report are the transactions in the subset of transactions summarized by the selected data element in the primary report; and

    displaying the secondary report on the display.

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