Patents by Inventor Xuming Meng

Xuming Meng 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).

  • Patent number: 11256750
    Abstract: Techniques herein accelerate graph querying by caching neighbor vertices (NVs) of super-node vertices. In an embodiment, a computer receives a graph query (GQ) to extract result paths from a graph in a database. The GQ has a sequence of query vertices (QVs) and a sequence of query edges (QEs). The computer successively traverses each QE and QV to detect paths of the graph that match the GQ. Traversing each QE and QV entails retrieving NVs of a current graph vertex (CGV) of a current traversal path. If the CGV is a key in a cache whose keys are graph vertices having an excessive degree, then the computer retrieves NVs from the cache. Otherwise, the computer retrieves NVs from the database. If the degree is excessive, and the CGV is not a key in the cache, then the computer stores, into the cache, the CGV as a key for the NVs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Oskar Van Rest, Jinha Kim, Xuming Meng, Sungpack Hong, Hassan Chafi
  • Publication number: 20190370289
    Abstract: Techniques herein accelerate graph querying by caching neighbor vertices (NVs) of super-node vertices. In an embodiment, a computer receives a graph query (GQ) to extract result paths from a graph in a database. The GQ has a sequence of query vertices (QVs) and a sequence of query edges (QEs). The computer successively traverses each QE and QV to detect paths of the graph that match the GQ. Traversing each QE and QV entails retrieving NVs of a current graph vertex (CGV) of a current traversal path. If the CGV is a key in a cache whose keys are graph vertices having an excessive degree, then the computer retrieves NVs from the cache. Otherwise, the computer retrieves NVs from the database. If the degree is excessive, and the CGV is not a key in the cache, then the computer stores, into the cache, the CGV as a key for the NVs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Oskar Van Rest, Jinha Kim, Xuming Meng, Sungpack Hong, Hassan Chafi
  • Patent number: 10423663
    Abstract: Techniques herein accelerate graph querying by caching neighbor vertices (NVs) of super-node vertices. In an embodiment, a computer receives a graph query (GQ) to extract result paths from a graph in a database. The GQ has a sequence of query vertices (QVs) and a sequence of query edges (QEs). The computer successively traverses each QE and QV to detect paths of the graph that match the GQ. Traversing each QE and QV entails retrieving NVs of a current graph vertex (CGV) of a current traversal path. If the CGV is a key in a cache whose keys are graph vertices having an excessive degree, then the computer retrieves NVs from the cache. Otherwise, the computer retrieves NVs from the database. If the degree is excessive, and the CGV is not a key in the cache, then the computer stores, into the cache, the CGV as a key for the NVs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oskar Van Rest, Jinha Kim, Xuming Meng, Sungpack Hong, Hassan Chafi
  • Publication number: 20180203897
    Abstract: Techniques herein accelerate graph querying by caching neighbor vertices (NVs) of super-node vertices. In an embodiment, a computer receives a graph query (GQ) to extract result paths from a graph in a database. The GQ has a sequence of query vertices (QVs) and a sequence of query edges (QEs). The computer successively traverses each QE and QV to detect paths of the graph that match the GQ. Traversing each QE and QV entails retrieving NVs of a current graph vertex (CGV) of a current traversal path. If the CGV is a key in a cache whose keys are graph vertices having an excessive degree, then the computer retrieves NVs from the cache. Otherwise, the computer retrieves NVs from the database. If the degree is excessive, and the CGV is not a key in the cache, then the computer stores, into the cache, the CGV as a key for the NVs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Oskar Van Rest, Jinha Kim, Xuming Meng, Sungpack Hong, Hassan Chafi