I love history. I guess there is something about the dusty
stories that strikes a chord with me somewhere. I love reading stories on how
internet came into existence, how Enigma was cracked and the famous browser
wars. The stories are made interesting because at the back you have people like
us who made it possible. And people are driven by passion and the traits that
define their personality.
On March 30, 1992, a patent was filed bearing application
number 860443 by Robert J Earle. It was titled “Method and apparatus for
storing and retrieving multi-dimensional data in computer memory”. The assignee
for the patent was a company based in Santa Clara, California called Arbor
Software Corporation. The patent was granted on October 25, 1994. This was the
patent for Hyperion Essbase as we knew it then.
Here is the link where you can check out the patent.
The good thing about the patent is that if you check the
section about the other publications that the author has referred to you will
see a book called as “The Art of Computer Programming” by Donald E. Knuth. Any computer
science graduate has this book as a first introduction into the world of
computer programming. This book has not changed a lot in all these years and is a
wonderful book to refer to. So somewhere, although in a different time and
place, Mr. Earle and I have both turned the same pages of the book and took
inspiration.
The patent is a wonderful read and I am reading all of the
associated patents to basically get in touch with a product that I have worked
with for almost five years. Will keep you posted on the same.
I am one of the inventors of this patent
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