US 2017/0371902 A1Published application

Method, Apparatus and Interface For Creating a Chain of Binary Attribute Relations

OwnerH. Paul Zellwegerinventor

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Abstract

Improvements to the techniques used to generate menu data for a content menu (5) are disclosed. They focus on a new model of data networks, the BAR chain (150); a new developers' interface (130); and new program logic that is easier to maintain. The new interface guides developers in their selection of fields and database attributes according to the BAR chain (150). These improvements include context-sensitive options (such as 175 or 184) and enabling developers to navigate from one table to another intuitively (182). These new features widen the audience for this system by lower the technical demands required to use it. When the developer has finished making selections, the development system (27) stores them in an extended form of meta-query data according to the BAR chain (150). This new format (135) generates both runtime and compiled menu data for a content menu (5).

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A computer-implemented method executed by a CPU that guides a developer in selecting attributes from a table in a database system to model a data network embedded in said table comprising the following steps:

displaying a developer interface on a monitor of a computer,
displaying said table interface in said developer interface that presents a filtered list of attributes from a table in said database system,
retrieving a selection made by said developer from said filtered list of attributes,
displaying a navigation option in said table interface that changes said filtered list of attributes from said table to a second filtered list derived from a different table in said database system,
storing a sequence of attribute selections made by said developer in computer memory of a storage device accessed by said computer,
retrieving said sequence of attribute selections from said storage device,
transforming said sequence of attribute selections into a symbolic expression that models said data network embedded in said database system,
parsing said symbolic expression to extract at least one term that is used in a query statement for said database system that constructs said data network,
wherein, said computed-implemented method only displays menu options in said developer interface that would be relevant to the construction of said symbolic expression that models said data network.

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