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Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data": "A provided data model may include a tree specification th...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data":"A provided data model may include a tree specification that declares parent-child relationships between objects in the data model. A set of 15 simple drawings is provided to support the legal and tech gobbledygook of the invention claims. Not only that, Tableau illustrates in Figures 7-10 that computers can be used to count how many people report to a manager.
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