US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Cache-efficient top-k aggregation over high cardinality large datasets" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,098, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cache-efficient top-k aggregation over high cardinality large datasets" was invented by Tarique Ashraf Siddiqui (Redmond, Wash.), Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.), Marius Dumitru (Issaquah, Wash.) and Surajit Chaudhuri (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements a cache-conscious aggregation framework for cache-efficient top-k aggregation over high cardinality large datasets. The framework leverages skew in the distribution of data in the datasets to minimize data movements within the local ...