ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,487, issued on March 11, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).
"Techniques for in memory key range searches" was invented by Naveen Pishe (San Ramon, Calif.) and Abhilash Srimat Tirumala Pallerlamudi (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for performing efficient key range searches in a distributed computing system. The method may comprise, receiving a first key (e.g., an alphanumeric identifier). A key range tree map associated with the first key may be identified from a plurality of key range tree maps. In some embodiments, ind...