US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Dec. 9 for "Generating compressed column slabs for storage in a database system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,588, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Generating compressed column slabs for storage in a database system" was invented by Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago) and Wesley H. Darvin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to determine a dataset for storage that includes, for each row, a plurality of column values corresponding to a plurality of columns. A plurality of column slab data are generated from the dataset, where each of the plurality of column slab data includes column values for one of the plurality of columns. Each of a plurality of compression dictionaries are trained from ...