US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Nov. 11 for "Execution of a shuffle operator via a database system based on allocating memory units" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,766, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Execution of a shuffle operator via a database system based on allocating memory units" was invented by Ellis Mihalko Saupe (University City, Mo.) and Andrew Park (St. Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a database system is operable to execute a shuffle operator based on, during a first temporal period, reserving a first amount of memory, allocating, to each of a plurality of other nodes, a corresponding number of fixed-memory units based on the first amount of memory, and process first data received from the plurality of other nodes in accord...