Method and system in an electronic data table for managing order oriented criteria
US7243096B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 29, 2004 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 20, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99933
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention is related to a method, system and computer program for processing, on a data table, a command comprising one or a plurality of order oriented criterias. The data table is defined as a structured multidimensional range of cells comprising one or a plurality of fields defined as a range of cells along a first dimension; and a plurality of records defined as a range of cells structured according to one or a plurality of fields along a second dimension. The method comprises the steps of receiving a command comprising means for identifying a data table and a specified field in the data table; one or more cell content criterias and one or more order oriented criterias, each order oriented criteria specifying a range of ranks according to a reference record complying with one or plurality of cell content criterias in the data table; processing one or plurality of cell content criterias on the specified one or plurality of fields of the data base and selecting the records complying with the processed one or plurality of cell content criterias; determining, from a given first selected record in the data table, the rank of each selected record along the first dimension…
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