ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,980, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).
"Implementing different secondary indexing schemes for different segments stored via a database system" was invented by Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago) and Daniel Coombs (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to generate a first segment that includes a first subset of a plurality of rows. A first secondary indexing scheme for indexing the first segment is selected from a plurality of secondary indexing options, and first index data for the first segment is generated in accordance with the first secondary indexing scheme. A second segment is ...