PROCESSOR AND DATA STORAGE ENABLING EFFICIENT DATA REPORTING

摘要

Even with modern high-speed processors and bandwidth, many systems implement intensive data reporting components that tax resources. Even very small improvements in reporting efficiencies can result in significant cost and resource savings, as well as improvements in the performance of such resources. Recording facts (e.g., events) with a standardized time and time interval based upon a universal reference, such as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and reporting based upon local time and local intervals improves data processing throughput with limited report granularity. For example, since forty-eight intervals comprise most of the world's time zones, reports simply designating facts as occurring within one of the forty-eight intervals and one of the thirty-minute intervals greatly improves operability and throughput.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a computer-readable expression of a fact record comprising:
a fact detail;a fact date as observed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); anda fact interval identifying one of a number of day-segment intervals of a calendar date as observed in UTC; a computer-readable expression of a time zone map comprising a record further comprising:
a time zone key indicating a selected global time zone;a date key indicating a UTC date;an interval key identifying one of the number of the day-segmenting intervals;a UTC date key;a UTC interval key; andwherein the UTC date key and UTC interval keys identify a local date and a local interval for an associated value for the time zone key, date key, and interval key; and a server configured to access a time zone and generate a report for the fact comprising the fact detail and reporting as occurring on the date indicated by the UTC date key and the time of occurrence as the UTC interval key.