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Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? (yro.slashdot.org)
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America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) โ€” for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data

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[โ€“] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago

Complains about an issued patent but nowhere actually includes the claims of the issue patent in the text of the article. Jfc, what garbage. If you look up the issued claims, they are pretty narrow and easy to design around. This article is bait.