US Patent Issued to SAP on Feb. 4 for "Disk-based merge for combining merged hash maps" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,582, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Disk-based merge for combining merged hash maps" was invented by Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany), Frederik Transier (Bammental, Germany) and Kai Stammerjohann (Wiesloch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for a disk-based merge for combining merged hash maps are described herein. An embodiment operates by identifying a first hash map and a second hash map, and comparing a first hash value from the first hash map with a second hash value from the second hash map, with the lowest index values. A lowest hash value is identified based on t...