US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on July 21 for "Methods and systems for deriving permissions for external data objects" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,316, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Methods and systems for deriving permissions for external data objects" was invented by William Pugh (Seattle), Jeffrey Alan Raymakers (Seattle), Graeme Riley Britz (Seattle), Daniel Adam Rosenthal (Seattle), Dmitry Yevgenyevich Ryabkov (Seattle) and Harsh Verma (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes accessing a graph that links one or more workbooks, one or more data sources, and one or more data objects. The method includes receiving a request from a user to access metadata of a first data object in the graph. The method includes det...