US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "Incremental partition index update using bloom filters" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,240, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Incremental partition index update using bloom filters" was invented by Daniel Opincariu (Redmond, Wash.), Zhuonan Song (Bellevue, Wash.), Miradham Kamilov (Vancouver, Canada) and Baosheng Wang (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for incremental partition updates. In at least one embodiment, indexing Bloom filters and incremental update Bloom filters are utilized to identify a set of candidate partitions of a distributed data set, such as in the context of a data lake. Queries may be processed using the...