ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,918, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Data compression, store, and search system" 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 data compression store and search system are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving a query to search a plurality of documents. It is determined that the plurality of documents are stored in a compressed format comprising a plurality of shells and a plurality of snippets. A first snippet that includes the query identif...