Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Harden E. Stevens
  • Non-blocking parallel band join algorithm
    Patent number: 6804678
    Abstract: A non-blocking parallel band join method and apparatus partitions tuples of two relations for localized processing. At each processing node, the tuples are further partitioned such that join operations may be performed efficiently, as tuples are received by the node during the partitioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Luo, Curt J. Ellmann, Jeffrey F. Naughton