Wenfeng W Li, 564245 Rickeys Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306

7702616, Apr 20, 2010

Jun 21, 2006

11/473190

Wenfeng Li - Foster City CA, US
Venkateswaran Venkataraman Iyer - Sunnyvale CA, US
Aneesh M. Kulkarni - Foster City CA, US
Peter Lai - Palo Alto CA, US

Actuate Corporation - South San Francisco CA

G06F 7/00

707 2, 707 1, 707 4, 707 5, 707 10, 707100

Methods and apparatus for joining two or more tables are disclosed. A query including a join query is received, where the join query requests that a new table be generated from data obtained from two or more tables, where the two or more tables are stored at two or more data sources. One or more columns for each of the tables for which data is to be obtained are identified from the query. A query plan to execute the query to obtain data for the identified columns from the two or more tables is then generated.

7720838, May 18, 2010

Jun 21, 2006

11/473191

Wenfeng Li - Foster City CA, US
Venkateswaran Venkataraman Iyer - Sunnyvale CA, US
Aneesh M. Kulkarni - Foster City CA, US
Peter Lai - Palo Alto CA, US

Actuate Corporation - South San Francisco CA

G06F 7/00

707713, 705714, 705755

Methods and apparatus for joining two or more tables are disclosed. A query including a join query is received, where the join query requests that a new table be generated from data obtained from two or more tables, where the two or more tables are stored at two or more different data sources. Data from the tables is retrieved corresponding to the query. A new table is then generated from the retrieved data.

7831633, Nov 9, 2010

Dec 22, 2004

11/021081

Linda Chan - Belmont CA, US
Peter Lai - Palo Alto CA, US
Xiaojun Yang - Union City CA, US
Wenfeng Li - Foster City CA, US
Paul Rogers - Fremont CA, US
Alan Li - Foster City CA, US
Derek Lai - Newark CA, US

Actuate Corporation - South San Francisco CA

G06F 17/30
G06F 9/44

707803, 717105

Methods and apparatus for supporting an additional data source in a system adapted for processing data from one or more data sources are disclosed. A design-time driver for the additional data source is obtained, where the design-time driver supports the definition of data including one or more fields of the additional data source to retrieve from the additional data source. In addition, a run-time driver for the additional data source is obtained, where the run-time driver supports retrieval of data corresponding to the one or more fields from the additional data source and where the run-time driver has a second application programming interface. The design-time driver is executed via a first application programming interface, where the first application programming interface enables definition of the data including the one or more fields to be retrieved from the additional data source. The data is then retrieved from the additional data source via the run-time driver using the second application programming interface.

7836178, Nov 16, 2010

Jun 11, 2002

10/166044

Jeffrey A. Bedell - Arlington VA, US
Benjamin Z. Li - Great Falls VA, US
Wenfeng Li - Reston VA, US
Luis V. Orozco - Vienna VA, US
Ramprasad Polana - Sterling VA, US
Ramkumar Ramachandran - Reston VA, US
Jun Yuan - Sterling VA, US

MicroStrategy Incorporated - McLean VA

G06F 15/173

709225, 709223

A technique for limiting access to the resources of a system is disclosed. In one embodiment, wherein the system has a server for processing requests, and wherein the server supports a plurality of projects, the technique includes receiving a request to access the resources of the system. The request is denied based upon an application level and a setting level, wherein the application level is associated with one of a plurality of functional layers within the system that is affected by the request, and wherein the setting level is a limiting value associated with one of the server alone and the server with one or more of the plurality of projects. The limiting value limits an operation on one of the plurality of functional layers, thereby limiting access to the resources of the system.

7945561, May 17, 2011

Apr 5, 2010

12/754550

Wenfeng Li - Foster City CA, US
Venkateswaran Venkataraman Iyer - Sunnyvale CA, US
Aneesh M. Kulkarni - Foster City CA, US
Peter Lai - Palo Alto CA, US

Actuate Corporation - South San Francisco CA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707714, 707716, 707718

Methods and apparatus for joining two or more tables are disclosed. A query including a join query is received, where the join query requests that a new table be generated from data obtained from two or more tables, where the two or more tables are stored at two or more data sources. One or more columns for each of the tables for which data is to be obtained are identified from the query. A query plan to execute the query to obtain data for the identified columns from the two or more tables is then generated.

8301668, Oct 30, 2012

Apr 18, 2008

12/105936

Wenbin He - Foster City CA, US
Wenfeng Li - Foster City CA, US
Jun Zhai - San Mateo CA, US
Petter Ivmark - San Francisco CA, US
Gauri Tikekar - Sunnyvale CA, US

Actuate Corporation - San Mateo CA

G06F 17/30

707804, 707755, 707756, 707791, 707793, 707802, 707803, 707705

In accordance with one aspect of the invention, methods and apparatus for providing information for use in generating or modifying an expression are disclosed. Input from a user is received within an expression. A list of one or more suggestions is provided in response to the input. A selection of one of the suggestions in the list is received. The expression is then built to include the selection.

8522192, Aug 27, 2013

Jun 20, 2002

10/175328

Rodolfo Avalos - Vienna VA, US
Jeffrey A. Bedell - Arlington VA, US
Scott Cappiello - Arlington VA, US
Alejandro Freixas - Centreville VA, US
Raul Gonzalez - Fairfax VA, US
William Hurwood - Washington DC, US
Benjamin Li - Great Falls VA, US
Wenfeng Li - Reston VA, US
Ningning Liu - Vienna VA, US
Luis V. Orozco - Vienna CA, US
Ramkumar Ramachandran - Reston VA, US
Michael J. Saylor - Great Falls VA, US
Stephen S. Trundle - Falls Church VA, US
Abhimanyu Warikoo - New York NY, US

Microstrategy Incorporated - McLean VA

G06F 9/44

717100, 717106, 717110, 717113

A system and method for facilitating the performance of administrator tasks in performing changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users. The method includes the steps of generating a login dialog box to accept login information from an administrator; establishing a connection to at least one project source name; providing an outline to the administrator, the outline facilitating the creation and submission of command based instruction by providing syntax for a purpose, the outline being maintained in a predetermined folder; and providing a history feature to save a set instructions that were executed successfully.

7113993, Sep 26, 2006

Jun 6, 2002

10/162716

Scott Cappiello - Arlington VA, US
Yi Du - Vienna VA, US
Dyung V. Le - Rockville MD, US
Benjamin Z. Li - Great Falls VA, US
Wenfeng Li - Reston VA, US
Ramprasad Polana - Sterling VA, US
Patrick Vinton - Alexandria VA, US

MicroStrategy, Inc. - McLean VA

G06F 15/16

709227

A technique for handling server session requests in a system having a plurality of servers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique includes receiving a request to create a session on one of the plurality of servers. In response to the request, a primary session is created on a first of the plurality of servers. After the primary session is created, at least one other of the plurality of servers are notified that the primary session has been created. Such notification allows for a backup session on the at least one other of the plurality of servers to take over for the primary session upon a failure on the first of the plurality of servers.