ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,217, issued on July 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Approximate metric for dataset using representative subset" was invented by Furqan Abdul Samad Shaikh (Bengaluru, India), Amit Kumar Prajapati (Kolkata, India) and Antariksha Bhaduri (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for processing a large dataset to extract information from the dataset, where the processing is performed by multiple systems and where the entire dataset, due to its size, cannot be loaded into the memory of any one of the multiple systems. In certain implementations, the information extracted from the...