ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,865, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"Constructing batches with dataloader workers with disjoint shard downloads" was invented by James Douglas Knighton (Lakeside, Calif.), Karan Kishorkumar Jariwala (San Jose, Calif.), Saaketh Ram-Rachakonda Narayan (San Francisco), Bandish Bimal Shah (San Francisco) and Abhinav Sai Venigalla (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing service accesses data files from data streams, each data file including samples to be processed for training a machine-learning model. The service converts the data files to discrete shard files, each shard file ...