Patents Assigned to SNOWFLAKE INC.
  • Patent number: 12222950
    Abstract: A search engine of a data exchange may receive from a user, a query comprising a set of search terms, and retrieve a set of data listings based on the search terms of the query. A data ranking module of the search engine may analyze each of the set of retrieved data listings to determine, for each of the set of retrieved data listings, a set of listing-specific signals and a set of external signals. Listing-specific signals may correspond to attributes or characteristics of data/content within a data listing, while external signals may correspond to a measure of activity in the data exchange that involves a data listing. Based on the listing-specific signals and the external signals analyzed for each retrieved data listing, the set of retrieved data listings may be ordered and presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Orestis Kostakis, Timur Misirpashaev
  • Patent number: 12223077
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for global data objects on a data platform where the global data objects are accessible at an organization level. In particular, an organization-level global data object provided by various embodiments can be used as a generic organization object that is owned by a specific organization, and can be managed (e.g., created, deleted, or modified) by use of a leader-based model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Christine A. Avanessians, Damien Carru, Ramachandran Natarajan Iyer, Eric Karlson, Dennis Edgar Lynch
  • Patent number: 12222923
    Abstract: Techniques for constructing transaction lock wait history showing blocker queries are described. A first transaction referencing a resource saved in a network-based data warehouse is received where the first transaction being blocked due to second transaction accessing the resource. A first telemetry event based on the first transaction being blocked is transmitted. After acquiring lock ownership of the resource by the first transaction, a second telemetry event based on acquiring lock ownership by the first transaction is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Chan, Krishna B. Nibhanupudi, Sahaj Saini, Sarvesh Singh
  • Patent number: 12222960
    Abstract: The subject technology performs, using asynchronous threads of execution nodes of a distributed database, asynchronous transformation and compaction of key-value pairs of data that correspond to a plurality of transactional queries, the asynchronous threads transforming the key-value pairs from an initial format to a commit format that includes a commit time of data committed to the distributed database, the asynchronous threads compacting the key-value pairs by deleting the key-value pairs in the initial format. The subject technology processes, using transactional threads in the execution nodes, the plurality of transactional queries to generate results data, the asynchronous threads performing the asynchronous transformation and compaction while the transactional threads generate the results data. The subject technology stores the results data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Luo, Alexander Miller, William Waddington, Zhaohui Zhang
  • Patent number: 12222964
    Abstract: A distributed database system can include transactional database and an object storage database. The data of the transactional database can be split into granules and replicated to the object storage database. The distributed database system can process transactional requests using the transactional database. The distributed database can receive a request that reads data more than a set size from the transactional database. The distributed database system can identify the granule data in the object storage database and transmit data to complete the read on one or more of a plurality of execution nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Slocum, Evan J. Tschannen
  • Patent number: 12223082
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for managing role hierarchies and assignment of permissions by providing secure roles which are roles where the only user that can grant any privilege to the secure role, is the role that owns the secure role. A set of secure roles that defines a role hierarchy may be generated, wherein only a role that owns the set of secure roles can grant any privilege to each of the secure roles. The role that owns the set of secure roles may grant one or more privileges to a first secure role of the set of secure roles. In response to a user other than the role that owns the set of secure roles attempting to grant a privilege to the first secure role or modify a privilege granted to the first secure role, the attempt may be denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Jain, Eric Karlson, Sepideh Khoshnood, Ramana Rao S. Turlapati
  • Patent number: 12223083
    Abstract: A hardware database privacy device is communicatively coupled to a private database system. The hardware database privacy device receives a request from a client device to perform a query of the private database system and identifies a level of differential privacy corresponding to the request. The identified level of differential privacy includes privacy parameters (?,?) indicating the degree of information released about the private database system. The hardware database privacy device identifies a set of operations to be performed on the set of data that corresponds to the requested query. After the set of data is accessed, the set of operations is modified based on the identified level of differential privacy such that a performance of the modified set of operations produces a result set that is (?,?)-differentially private.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Ishaan Nerurkar, Christopher Hockenbrocht, Liam Damewood, Mihai Maruseac, Alexander Rozenshteyn
  • Patent number: 12222934
    Abstract: A system includes at least one hardware processor and at least one memory storing instructions that cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations. The operations include configuring a processing stack in an execution node process. The processing stack includes a telemetry application programming interface (API). At least one configuration of a trace event is retrieved using an API call received by the execution node process. Telemetry information of the trace even is collected using the telemetry API based on the at least one configuration. An event table is updated based on the telemetry information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tyson J. Hamilton, Qinye Li, Steven Parkes, Xie Xu
  • Patent number: 12222958
    Abstract: Techniques described herein can enable stream replication. A first deployment can store a table including one or more streams. The techniques described herein can be used to replicate the table at a second deployment while replicating the one or more streams associated with the table. Select prior table versions and partitions in the table are copied to the second deployment to enable stream replication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Istvan Cseri, Tyler Jones, Daniel E. Sotolongo, Boyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12222828
    Abstract: The subject technology determines a set of share objects in a replication group. The subject technology, for each object from the set of share objects, determines a set of permissions for a set of objects of databases that has been granted to each share object from the replication group. The subject technology, for each permission from the set of permissions, determines a set of dependencies, the set of dependencies comprising a second set of objects. The subject technology generates a graph structure based at least in part on the set of share objects, the set of permissions, and the set of dependencies. The subject technology traverses at least a portion of the graph structure to determine a final set of dependencies for replication. The subject technology performs a replication process based at least in part on the final set of dependencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Loc Duc Bui, Hitesh Madan, Nithin Mahesh, Subramanian Muralidhar, Sahaj Saini, Di Wu
  • Patent number: 12223085
    Abstract: Techniques for identity resolution and data enrichment include instantiating, at an account of a data consumer, an identity resolution application using an installer stored procedure. A data object is configured, at the account of the data consumer, to share log data generated by the identity resolution application with an account of a data provider. The identity resolution application is enabled, at the account of the data consumer, for an identity resolution process using source data based on an instruction originating from the account of the data provider. The instruction is based on the configuring of the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus A. Henderson, Justin Langseth
  • Patent number: 12222949
    Abstract: A method of implementing object tagging framework starts with the processor receiving a tag creation command including a tag name. In response to the tag creation command, the processor creates a current tag. The processor then receives an association command, the tag name and a source object identifier. The processor determines a source object associated with the source object identifier. The source object includes a tag value. The processor associates the current tag with the source object. The processor receives a replication command including the source object and a target object. The processor causes replication of the source object to the target object that comprises replicating the current tag with the tag name and the tag value in the source object to the target object. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Artin Avanes, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Yujie Li, Zheng Mi, Subramanian Muralidhar, David Schultz
  • Patent number: 12216656
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a dynamic query execution model. This query execution model may provide acceleration by scaling out parallel parts of a query (also referred to as a fragment) to additional computing resources, for example computing resources leased from a pool of computing resources. Execution of the parts of the query may be coordinated by a parent query coordinator, where the query originated, and a fragment query coordinator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Igor Demura, Varun Ganesh, Prasanna Rajaperumal, Libo Wang, Jiaqi Yan
  • Patent number: 12217088
    Abstract: Techniques described herein can optimize usage of computing resources in a data system. Dynamic throttling can be performed locally on a computing resource in the foreground and autoscaling can be performed in a centralized fashion in the background. Dynamic throttling can lower the load without overshooting while minimizing oscillation and reducing the throttle quickly. Autoscaling may involve scaling in or out the number of computing resources in a cluster as well as scaling up or down the type of computing resources to handle different types of situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Johan Harjono, Daniel Geoffrey Karp, Kunal Prafulla Nabar, Rares Radut, Arthur Kelvin Shi
  • Patent number: 12218948
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an organization-level account for an organization on a data platform, users of which can possess administrative or management privileges with respect to the organization and across one or more others accounts of the organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Christine A. Avanessians, Damien Carru, Ramachandran Natarajan Iyer, Dennis Edgar Lynch, Subramanian Muralidhar
  • Patent number: 12216628
    Abstract: A system to identify optimal cloud resources for executing workloads. The system deduplicates historical client queries based on a workload selection configuration to determine a grouping of historical client queries. The system generates a workload based on at least a portion of the grouping of historical client queries. The system repeatedly executes a test run of the workload using resources of a cloud environment to determine whether there is a performance difference in the test run. The system, in response to determining that there is no performance difference, identifies one or more sets of decreased resources of the cloud environment. The system re-executes the test run using the one or more sets of decreased resources of the cloud environment to determine whether there is a performance difference in the test run that is attributed to the one or more sets of decreased resources of the cloud environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Allison Lee, Shrainik Jain, Qiuye Jin, Stratis Viglas, Jiaqi Yan
  • Patent number: 12216654
    Abstract: A system for a materialized table (MT) refresh using multiple processing pipelines includes at least one hardware processor coupled to memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations including determining dependencies among a plurality of intermediate MTs generated from a source MT. The source MT uses a table definition with a query on one or more base tables and a lag duration value. A graph snapshot of dependencies among the plurality of intermediate MTs is generated. Processing pipelines are configured. Each of the processing pipelines corresponds to a subset of the plurality of intermediate MTs indicated by the graph snapshot. Responsive to detecting an instruction for a refresh operation on the source MT, refreshes on corresponding intermediate MTs of the plurality of intermediate MTs in each processing pipeline of the processing pipelines are performed to complete the refresh operation on the source MT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Arthur Akidau, Fabian Hueske, Tyler Jones, Daniel Mills, Leon Papke, Prasanna Rajaperumal, Daniel E. Sotolongo
  • Patent number: 12216638
    Abstract: Techniques described herein can accelerate change data capture determinations such as stream reads, which show changes made to a table between two points in time. Three distinct row bitests that mark deleted, updated, inserted, rows in micro-partitions can be added as metadata for the table. These bitsets can be generated during DML operations and then stored as metadata of the new partition generated by the DML operations. The bitsets can then be used to generate streams showing the changes in the table between two points in time (changes interval).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Arthur Akidau, Istvan Cseri, Fabian Hueske, Tyler Jones, Yevgeniy Kogan, Dzmitry Pauliukevich, Daniel E. Sotolongo
  • Patent number: 12216662
    Abstract: A method of implementing object tagging framework starts with the processor receiving a tag creation command including a tag name. In response to the tag creation command, the processor creates a current tag. The processor then receives an association command, the tag name and a target object identifier. The processor determines a target object associated with the target object identifier. The target object includes a tag value. The processor associates the current tag with the target object. The processor identifies a first child object of the target object. The target object and the first child object are hierarchical objects. In response to determining that the first child object is tag-unassociated, the processor associates the current tag with the first child object. In response to receiving a query including the tag name, the processor generates an output based on the tag name. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Artin Avanes, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Yujie Li, Zheng Mi, Subramanian Muralidhar, David Schultz
  • Patent number: 12216648
    Abstract: A method includes receiving instructions to perform order-dependent DataFrame operation on data. In response to receiving the instructions, the framework analyzes the instructions to identify the order-dependent DataFrame operation, and generates an executable query corresponding to the identified order-dependent DataFrame operation. The framework executes the generated executable query on the data stored in the first database in the cloud data platform, creates a row position column that generates for each row a unique integer identifier, reproducible across multiple sessions and/or queries for the same underlying data to make the data accessible via positional indexing, and assigns each row of the first database a unique row index value based on the row position column and the row position column order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Srilakshmi Chintala, Jianzhun Du, Naresh Kumar, Srinath Shankar, Leonhard Franz Spiegelberg, Eric Shawn Vandenberg, Andong Zhan, Yun Zou