ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,628, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Advanced database decompression" was invented by Robert Lasch (Walldorf, Germany), Ismail Oukid (Dresden, Germany) and Norman May (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for decompressing data. One or more compressed blocks in a set of stored compressed blocks responsive to a request to access data in the set of stored compressed blocks are identified. String prefixes inside the identified compressed blocks are decompressed using front coding. String suffixes inside the identified compressed blocks are ...