US Patent 12118011 Universal report engine

A method including receiving a first command including both a data extraction expression and a first report configuration expression. The data extraction expression includes program code for extracting fields of a dataset of a data source. The first report configuration expression includes program code configured to populate cells of first dimensions of a first report and to generate a first tree including subset nodes including records of the dataset. The first command is executed by executing the data extraction expression on the dataset to generate the records. Executing the first command also includes executing the first report configuration expression on the records to generate the first tree. Executing the first command also includes populating, using the first report configuration expression and the first tree, the cells. Executing the first command also includes generating, in response to receiving the first command and by traversing the first tree, the first report.