Patents by Inventor Patrick Nip

Patrick Nip 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).

  • Method and system for resolving data inconsistency
    Patent number: 8849776
    Abstract: Method, system, and programs for resolving data inconsistency in a distributed system having a plurality of replica instances. In response to a read request of at least one data element, a key-specific probability value for the at least one data element of the read request is retrieved. Based on the retrieved key-specific probability value and a system load of the distributed system, a self-healing probability of the at least one data element of the read request is computed. A self-healing transaction that includes the at least one data element of the read request is then generated based on the self-healing probability of the at least one data element. The generated self-healing transaction is further applied to at least some of the plurality of replica instances in the distributed system to resolve data inconsistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Tugrul Bingol, Masood Mortazavi, Jacob Y. Levy, Patrick Nip
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOLVING DATA INCONSISTENCY
    Publication number: 20130097130
    Abstract: Method, system, and programs for resolving data inconsistency in a distributed system having a plurality of replica instances. In response to a read request of at least one data element, a key-specific probability value for the at least one data element of the read request is retrieved. Based on the retrieved key-specific probability value and a system load of the distributed system, a self-healing probability of the at least one data element of the read request is computed. A self-healing transaction that includes the at least one data element of the read request is then generated based on the self-healing probability of the at least one data element. The generated self-healing transaction is further applied to at least some of the plurality of replica instances in the distributed system to resolve data inconsistency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Tugrul Bingol, Masood Mortazavi, Jacob Y. Levy, Patrick Nip