Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?

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By EditorDavidSep 28, 2025, 3:34 am415 ptsTop
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data": "A provided data model may include a tree specification that declares…

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