ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,875, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to VAIL SYSTEMS INC. (Deerfield, Ill.).
"Data management system using attributed data slices" was invented by Srinivasa Rao (Deerfield, Ill.), Todd Whiteley (Deerfield, Ill.), Bopsi Chandramouli (Deerfield, Ill.) and David Fruin (Deerfield, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for data management include representing, organizing, and accessing very large data sets. Embodiments describe supporting data sets of various size based on attributed data slices (ADSs) to enable reduced memory requirements, query decomposition and parallel execution, and constant execution times for conc...