ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,902, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Federating multidimensional OLAP data from different sources" was invented by Olivier Tsoungui (Viry Chatillon, France) and Christian Ah-Soon (Carrieres-sur-Seine, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may comprise creating a first view of a first data source comprising a first online analytical processing (OLAP) cube based on a first user input, creating a second view of a second data source based on a second user input, combining the first view and the second view, and creating metadata objects for elements of the first view and the...