US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Building a time dimension based on a time data model and creating an association relationship between the time dimension and a second data model for analyzing data in the time dimension" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,900, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Building a time dimension based on a time data model and creating an association relationship between the time dimension and a second data model for analyzing data in the time dimension" was invented by Na Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method according to one approach includes defining a time data model and building a time dimension based on the time data model. The method further includes defining a second data model. An association relationship is created between the time dimension and the second data m...