ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,903, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).
"Determining shortcut relationships in data models" was invented by Qianfan Wang (Seattle) and Qiang Kong (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to managing data using network computers. A data model that includes a plurality of data objects, a plurality of data relationships, and a plurality of shortcuts may be provided. If portions of the data model being are selected in the user interface for removal from the data model further actions may be performed, including: determining edges and nodes associated with the portion of the data mod...