ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,821, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Natural language search of non-indexed data" was invented by Simone Di Somma (Rome), Giuseppe Ancona (Rome), Geoffrey Peters (Vancouver, Canada) and Ka-Lok Fung (Surrey, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include receiving a natural language query to search a data model, determining a plurality of dimensions, a plurality of measures and, for each of the plurality of dimensions, a sample of dimension members, transmitting the natural language query, the plurality of dimensions, the plurality of measures and the sample of dimension members to a ...