ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,431, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Index compression using reordering and self-updates" was invented by Frederik Transier (Bammental, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for compression operation combining duplicate index entries independent of a data model. One example method includes operations to identify an update to at least one entry in a compressed index that includes a plurality of entries, each associated with a unique entry ID. An entry ID of each entry associated with the update are identified. A self-upda...