Patents Assigned to SNOWFLAKE INC.
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Patent number: 12099472Abstract: A query directed to database data stored across a set of files is received. The query includes predicates applied against metadata of the set of files. One or more files are removed from the set of files whose metadata does not satisfy a predicate of the plurality of predicates. Rows of the one or more remaining files of the set of files are filtered based on the one or more predicates.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, Allison Waingold Lee, Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner
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Patent number: 12099625Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for associating use case data with data listings in a structured manner, thereby allowing for data listings to be organized and/filtered based on use case information. A processing device may provide a listing creation interface that is used to assign a set of use cases to a first data listing and publish the data listing on a data exchange. The data listing is one of a plurality of data listings published on the data exchange and the processing device may provide a data listing interface for displaying the plurality of data listings and an interactable menu including a selectable indication of each of the plurality of use cases. In response to receiving a selection of one or more of the plurality of use cases via the interactable menu, the processing device may display in the data listing interface, each of the plurality of data listings that have been assigned any of the selected one or more use cases.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Emily B. Dillon, Travis Kaufman, Adil Lalani, Paul O. Lanzoni, Shakhina Pulatova
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Patent number: 12099498Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes forming, at a database platform, a file stage in a user account on the database platform, the user account being associated with a client, forming, at the database platform, a hidden stage directory table and a data pipeline for the file stage, and binding the data pipeline to the file stage. The method also includes receiving a notification of an event of the file stage. The method also includes identifying the data pipeline corresponding to the file stage. The method also includes updating the hidden stage directory table of the identified data pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Polita Paulus, Aravind Ramarathinam, Saurin Shah
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Patent number: 12093248Abstract: The subject technology receives a statement to initiate an online index building process of an index. The subject technology determines that the index can be generated. The subject technology performs a write operation to store an index record indicating an initial status of the online index building process. The subject technology performs a statement fencing process. The subject technology performs a back-filling process of the index. The subject technology validates the index.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Cristian Diaconu, Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis, Alexander Miller, Dimitrios Tsirogiannis, William Waddington, Zhaohui Zhang
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Patent number: 12093229Abstract: A set of affinity metrics may be determined for a set of listings, each listing of the set of listings comprising data to be shared through a data exchange, wherein the set of affinity metrics includes a set of characteristics allowing identification of a listing having one or more characteristics in the set of characteristics. For each pair of listings of the set of listings, an affinity score can be calculated, using the set of affinity metrics, and stored as part of the record in an affinity store. One or more listings of the set of listings using the affinity score between the first listing of the set of listings and the one or more listings of the set of listings can be presented.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Orestis Kostakis, Prasanna V. Krishnan, Subramanian Muralidhar, Shakhina Pulatova, Megan Marie Schoendorf
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Patent number: 12093284Abstract: A system for sub-table replication within a materialized view of a source data table. A materialized view of a source data table is generated based on a query, the source data table having a plurality of data table rows associated with a plurality of client identifiers and including an entitlements column and data content, the entitlements column including a plurality of provider account identifiers and a plurality of consumer account identifiers. An update to an entitlements table of the source data table is detected where the entitlements table includes a plurality of entitlements table rows and where the entitlements table rows are associated with the client identifiers, the consumer account identifiers, and the provider account identifiers. An update to the source data table based on the first update to the entitlements table is detected, and an incremental replication of the materialized view of the source data table is performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Pui Kei Johnston Chu, Shreyas Narendra Desai, German Alberto Gil Echeverri, Prasanna Krishnan, Nithin Mahesh, Subramanian Muralidhar, Eric Robinson, Sahaj Saini
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Patent number: 12093152Abstract: A data transfer request can be received by each of multiple deployments; however, only a primary deployment can process the request. The data transferred by the primary deployment may be replicated in the secondary deployments. In response to a failover event, one of the secondary deployments can be designated as the new primary development and continue the data transfer based on the data transfer request and the replication information received from the old primary deployment prior to the failover.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Abdullah Al Mahmood, Ruta Dhaneshwar, Xin Huang, Ganeshan Ramachandran Iyer, Jiaxing Liang, Nithin Mahesh, Raghav Ramachandran, Purav B. Saraiya, Yanyi Zhang
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Patent number: 12093281Abstract: Described herein are techniques for replicating external stages between deployments of e.g., a cloud data lake using a modified storage integration. The modified storage integration may be defined with a set of storage locations. The storage integration comprises a base URL for each of the set of storage locations and each storage location identifies a remote deployment where a cloud platform is hosted and a geographic region of the remote deployment. An external stage object may be bound to the storage integration, where the external stage object facilitates a data loading operation that is currently in progress on the first storage location. In response to detecting an outage at the first storage location, the data loading operation that was in progress on the first storage location may be continued at the second storage location using the storage integration.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Subramanian Muralidhar, Polita Paulus, Sahaj Saini, Saurin Shah, Srinidhi Karthik Bisthavalli Srinivasa
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Patent number: 12086154Abstract: The subject technology receives a query, the query including a query range for processing the query. The subject technology sends a request to a key-value store for blob metadata and a set of recent writes for the query range. The subject technology receives the blob metadata, the blob metadata including information related to a set of blob files. The subject technology determines whether the set of blob files is stored in a local cache. The subject technology, in response to at least one blob file being missing from the set of blob files, sends a request to a blob store to retrieve the at least one blob file of the set of blob files. The subject technology transforms the retrieved at least one blob file to a column file format. The subject technology stores the transformed at least one blob file in the local cache.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Mihir Dharamshi, Cristian Diaconu, Chen Luo, Andrew McCormick, Corbin McElhanney, Joshua Slocum, Wumengjian Zhu
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Patent number: 12086287Abstract: A method receives data from a data source. The method generates a plurality of generalizations of the data. The method sends the plurality of generalizations of the data to a plurality of execution nodes, wherein each of the plurality of execution nodes includes computational resources to compute a candidate generalization using an information loss scoring function. The method receives a candidate generalization from each of the plurality of execution nodes. The method selects a preferred generalization from the plurality of candidate generalizations. The method generates an anonymized view of the data set using the preferred generalization.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: David Jensen, Joseph David Jensen
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Patent number: 12088632Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing network connections. An example method includes receiving one or more messages from a plurality of computing devices connected through a network, the one or more messages indicating actual connections among the plurality of computing devices. The method also includes comparing the actual connections to a list of expected connections indicated by a connections master file that comprises connection information for the plurality of computing devices. The method also includes identifying an unexpected connection based on one of the actual connections having no matching entry in the list of expected connections and updating the connections master file by adding the unexpected connection to the list of expected connections indicated by the connections master file.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: James Calvin Armstrong, Jonathan Claybaugh
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Patent number: 12079244Abstract: A system and method for managing data storage and data access with querying data in a distributed system without buffering the results of intermediate operations in persistent storage. The method includes pushing, by a first operator, as a result of executing a query plan, an intermediate result to a plurality of secondary operators. Processing of the intermediate result by the plurality of secondary operators is delayed to coordinate generation of a plurality of second results based on beginning a final consumption operation of the plurality of second results.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Allison Waingold Lee
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Patent number: 12072840Abstract: Techniques for executing show commands are described herein. A plurality of navigation steps is utilized, each navigation step corresponding to a different layer in a database structure and each navigation step including an operator to fetch items from a metadata database up to respective bounded limits. Dependency information is also fetched for objects of the specified object type in the show command. After a set of objects from the last layer are processed, memory for the navigation steps is flushed and the next set of objects are processed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Lin Chan, Tianyi Chen, Robert Bengt Benedikt Gernhardt, Nithin Mahesh, Eric Robinson
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Patent number: 12074991Abstract: A proxy revocation service provides a reliable service for performing revocation checks. The proxy revocation service queries public certificate authorities for the revocation status of a set of digital certificates and maintains a database of the revocation statuses. The proxy revocation service provides a singular endpoint that is Application Protocol Interface (API) accessible to web clients. Web clients communicate with the proxy revocation service through use of API message to perform revocation checks, rather than communicating with the public certificate authorities using an online certificate status protocol (OCSP). Use of the proxy revocation service provides both a reliable service for performing revocation checks as well as shifts the complexity away from the web clients.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Harsh Chaturvedi, Harsha S. Kapre, Srinath Shankar
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Patent number: 12072911Abstract: Systems and methods for providing access to information in a relational database via API-operations for dataframes, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information that represents an input dataframe; generate a first relation that represents the input dataframe, the first relation having a first schema; obtain a dataframe query to be performed on the input dataframe; translate the dataframe query into a sequence of relational database operations; perform the sequence of relational database operations on the first relation to generate a second relation; and present at least a portion of the second relation to a user, and/or perform other steps.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Balachandran Atur, Hazem Elmeleegy, Jung Lin Lee, Aditya G Parameswaran, Devin Petersohn, Mahesh Shankar Vashishtha
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Patent number: 12072998Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Ishaan Nerurkar, Christopher Hockenbrocht, Liam Damewood, Mihai Maruseac, Alexander Rozenshteyn
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Patent number: 12067019Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room architecture that dynamically restricts data included in the clean room. The data clean room architecture can implement row access policy or dynamic data masking for row and column based restrictions of data provided through the clean room. The data clean room architecture can provide a limited set of data that does not require obfuscation of data for direction matching and correlation of data in the different datasets, such as matching user identifiers or emails.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Rachel Frances Blum, Justin Langseth, Michael Earle Rainey
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Patent number: 12066917Abstract: Techniques described herein can monitor various data metrics. The auto-insight techniques can further detect and rank data segments that contributed to, or counteracted, shifts in data and detect when such shifts occurred. Thus, the techniques described herein can detect and identify root causes in shifts in different metrics. The techniques include pruning and ranking causes to identify the root causes and identify non-relevant factors, as well.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Christian Kleinerman, Christopher F. Pouliot, Jacobus J. P. Van Ryswyck
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Patent number: 12067005Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data sharing system implemented as a local application of a distributed database. A query from a query template can be validated and executed against shared dataset that comprises portions of data from the database dataset and additional portions of data from another database of the distributed database.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Rachel Frances Blum, Justin Langseth, Michael Earle Rainey
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Patent number: 12061587Abstract: The subject technology obtains a read timestamp of a first transaction. The subject technology performs a first read operation on a parent table associated with the first transaction to determine a set of committed versions of the parent table. The subject technology determines whether a key exists in the parent table based on the first transaction. The subject technology, in response to the key existing in the parent table, performs a first write operation on a child table. The subject technology determines whether a duplicate key exists in the child table. The subject technology, in response to determining that there is no duplicate key in the child table, determines whether there is a conflict with the key. The subject technology, in response to determining that there is no conflict with the key, performs a second write operation on a secondary index table of the child table.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis, Dimitrios Tsirogiannis, Zhaohui Zhang