Patents by Inventor Hao H. HUANG

Hao H. HUANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Just-in-time analytics on large file systems
    Patent number: 9244975
    Abstract: As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring high-level analytical information for file management and analysis. Two particularly important tasks are the processing of aggregate and top-k queries which, unfortunately, cannot be quickly answered by hierarchical file systems such as ext3 and NTFS. Existing pre-processing based solutions, e.g., file system crawling and index building, consume a significant amount of time and space (for generating and maintaining the indexes) which in many cases cannot be justified by the infrequent usage of such solutions. User interests can often be sufficiently satisfied by approximate (i.e., statistically accurate) answers. A just-in-time sampling-based system can, after consuming a small number of disk accesses, produce extremely accurate answers for a broad class of aggregate and top-k queries over a file system without the requirement of any prior knowledge. The system is efficient, accurate and scalable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: The George Washington University, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Gautam Das, Hao H. Huang, Sandor Szalay, Nan Zhang
  • JUST-IN-TIME ANALYTICS ON LARGE FILE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20120166478
    Abstract: As file systems reach the petabytes scale, users and administrators are increasingly interested in acquiring high-level analytical information for file management and analysis. Two particularly important tasks are the processing of aggregate and top-k queries which, unfortunately, cannot be quickly answered by hierarchical file systems such as ext3 and NTFS. Existing pre-processing based solutions, e.g., file system crawling and index building, consume a significant amount of time and space (for generating and maintaining the indexes) which in many cases cannot be justified by the infrequent usage of such solutions. User interests can often be sufficiently satisfied by approximate (i.e., statistically accurate) answers. A just-in-time sampling-based system can, after consuming a small number of disk accesses, produce extremely accurate answers for a broad class of aggregate and top-k queries over a file system without the requirement of any prior knowledge. The system is efficient, accurate and scalable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Gautam DAS, Hao H. HUANG, Sandor SZALAY, Nan ZHANG