ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,271, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Computer-implemented methods and computing systems for reorganizing data" was invented by Zanqing Zhang (Markham, Canada), Michael Chih Hung Li (Markham, Canada), Fatemeh Mansour Kiaie (Richmond Hill, Canada), Sundar Annamalai (Ajax, Canada) and Ahmed Helal (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and computing systems for reorganizing data are disclosed. One or more user defined functions (UDFs) are applied to one or more columns of a data set to generate a hidden column. The data set partitioned according to a first...