Patents Assigned to SNOWFLAKE INC.
  • Patent number: 11734451
    Abstract: An exchange template framework for a data platform. A data provider of the data platform instructs the data platform to generate an exchange template based on compliance rules. In response to determining by the data platform to initiate a compliance report, the data platform maps evidence items for the compliance report from one or more source tables using a data field mapper of the exchange template. The data platform generates compliance program specific views based on the evidence items mapped from the source tables and generates an anonymized view based on the compliance program specific views using an anonymization layer of the exchange template. The data platform provides the anonymized view to an assessor using one or more validation scripts of the exchange template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Abhiram Arikapudi, Brian Jack Lee, Saurin Shah, Cameron Tekiyeh, Sujay C. Yantrapragada
  • Patent number: 11734301
    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: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Istvan Cseri, Tyler Jones, Daniel E. Sotolongo, Boyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11736346
    Abstract: A method of monitoring status information of devices is described. The method includes establishing a first connection to a hardware resource executing a cloud extension agent on a local network, over a wide area network external from the local network and separated by at least one firewall, using a standard internet protocol. The method further includes sending, via the first connection, a first set of instructions to manage a first set of mobile devices by one or more local servers on the local network; and receiving status information via the secure network connection, wherein the status information is from the one or more local servers on the local network associated with a plurality of devices that access the one or more local servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Vineeth Narasimhan, Joshua Lambert, Thomas Herchek, Ryan Elliot Hope, Nitish Jha, Rahul Jain, Sumeet Singh
  • Patent number: 11736483
    Abstract: A credentials store definition identifying a remote credential store is received. The credential store definition includes access information to enable access to the remote credentials store. A credentials object is created in an internal database based on a credentials object definition. The credentials object identifies a security credential to retrieve from the remote credentials store to access an external resource. At runtime, a request to access the external resource is received, and based on receiving the request, the security credentials identified by the credentials object are retrieved from the remote credential store using the access information. The retrieved security credential is provided to a processing component to access the external resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Denny-Brown, Tyler Jones, Isaac Kunen
  • Patent number: 11734307
    Abstract: Caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies multiple files used to process a query and distributes each of the multiple files to a particular execution node to execute the query. Each execution node determines whether the distributed file is stored in the execution node's cache. If the execution node determines that the file is stored in the cache, it processes the query using the cached file. If the file is not stored in the cache, the execution node retrieves the file from a remote storage device, stores the file in the execution node's cache, and processes the query using the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski
  • Patent number: 11734116
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for automating the rollout of database changes. For example, a method includes detecting a change in database code of a database resulting in a changed database code. The change in the database code includes a parameter rollout for at least one parameter setting of the database. Execution of a query associated with the change in the database code is monitored. The query uses the at least one parameter setting. A regression in the changed database code is detected based on the monitoring. Impact analysis is performed to determine a scope of impact of the regression on at least another query using the at least one parameter setting. A determination is made on whether to perform a rollback of the change in the database code or perform mitigation based on the scope of impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Vlad Bunescu, Yan Huang, Jaeha Lee, Shiyu Qu, Jiaqi Yan
  • Patent number: 11736345
    Abstract: A cloud extension agent can be provided on a customer premise for interfacing, via an outbound secure connection, cloud based services. The cloud extension agent can reach the cloud based services through existing firewall infrastructure, thereby providing simple, secure deployment. Furthermore, the secure connection can enable substantially real-time communication with a cloud service to provide web-based, substantially real time control or management of resources on the customer premises via the cloud extension agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Vineeth Narasimhan, Joshua Lambert, Thomas Herchek, Ryan Elliot Hope, Nitish Jha, Rahul Jain, Sumeet Singh
  • Patent number: 11734280
    Abstract: A source table organized into a set of micro-partitions is accessed by a network-based data warehouse. A pruning index is generated based on the source table. The pruning index comprises a set of filters that indicate locations of distinct values in each column of the source table. A query directed at the source table is received at the network-based data warehouse. The query is processed using the pruning index. The processing of the query comprises pruning the set of micro-partitions of the source table to scan for data matching the query, the pruning of the plurality of micro-partitions comprising identifying, using the pruning index, a sub-set of micro-partitions to scan for the data matching the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Ismail Oukid, Stefan Richter
  • Patent number: 11734303
    Abstract: Example caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies multiple files used to process a query and distributes each of the multiple files to a particular execution node to execute the query. Each execution node determines whether the distributed file is stored in the execution node's cache. If the execution node determines that the file is stored in the cache, it processes the query using the cached file. If the file is not stored in the cache, the execution node retrieves the file from a remote storage device, stores the file in the execution node's cache, and processes the query using the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Marcin Zukowski
  • Patent number: 11734304
    Abstract: Example caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies multiple files used to process a query and distributes each of the multiple files to a particular execution node to execute the query. Each execution node determines whether the distributed file is stored in the execution node's cache. If the execution node determines that the file is stored in the cache, it processes the query using the cached file. If the file is not stored in the cache, the execution node retrieves the file from a remote storage device, stores the file in the execution node's cache, and processes the query using the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Marcin Zukowski
  • Patent number: 11726976
    Abstract: A database query specifies a user-defined function (UDF) to apply to one or more tables in a distributed database. The one or more tables are identified in the distributed database. The one or more tables are associated with an initial set of data types native to the distributed database. The one or more tables are converted to database data comprising data types of the UDF. The UDF is executed on the database data to generate results data. The results data is converted to table results data. The table results data is associated with the initial set of data types. The table results data is stored in the distributed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Brossard, Chong Han, Igor Zinkovsky
  • Patent number: 11726959
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for processing queries wherein the query includes a request to access or delete data and accessing metadata associated with the set of data, the metadata defining data characteristics of the set of data and identifying at least sets of data that need or not need to be accessed or deleted based on the metadata without accessing the actual data in the set of data; also methods to optimize processing of some operations based on the collected metadata on data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Marcin Zukowski, Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Ashish Motivala
  • Patent number: 11727139
    Abstract: Row-level security (RLS) may provide fine-grained access control based on flexible, user-defined access policies to databases, tables, objects, and other data structures. A RLS policy may be an entity or object that defines rules for row access. A RLS policy may be decoupled or independent from any specific table. This allows more robust and flexible control. A RLS policy may then be attached to one or more tables. The RLS policy may include a Boolean-valued expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Artin Avanes, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Zheng Mi, Subramanian Muralidhar, David Schultz, Jian Xu
  • Patent number: 11727136
    Abstract: A method of sharing data in a multi-tenant database includes inspecting, by a processing device of a multiple tenant database, a sharer account to determine a presence of a grant to a second role object, in a target account, of access rights to a first role object included in the sharer account. The method includes granting the second role object, in the target account, access rights to an alias object. The first role object having one or more grants to the one or more resources of the sharer account. The target account accesses the one or more resources using the one or more grants of the first role object and using the alias object without at least one of copying the one or more resources or transmitting the one or more resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Martin Hentschel, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11726996
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems and methods for analyzing query comments for identifying potential software bugs. In an example, a data platform obtains query comments associated with a query. Based on determining that the query comments include a reference to a software bug of the data platform, the data platform generates a software-bug alert based on the query comments, and transmits the software-bug alert to an endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventor: Orestis Kostakis
  • Patent number: 11727013
    Abstract: Hybrid tables can be used in different use-case scenarios. Hybrid tables provide a flexible mechanism to support files and data in different formats while providing access to the different types of data as part of one table. This flexibility can allow the use of hybrid tables in data lake or other similar environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Arthur Akidau, Thierry Cruanes, Istvan Cseri, Benoit Dageville, Tyler Jones, Dinesh Chandrakant Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11709808
    Abstract: The subject technology receives a statement to perform an operation to add a new column into a table. The subject technology generates a schema hash value for a new schema version associated with a new schema version value. The subject technology stores a mapping of the schema hash value to the new schema version value for the table in a metadata database. The subject technology stores a new schema entry based on the schema hash value, the new schema version value, and the new column for the table in the metadata database. The subject technology performs an operation to add the new column to the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Adrian Hamza, William Waddington, Khaled Yagoub, Wumengjian Zhu, Lishi Jiang
  • Patent number: 11709837
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for performing a geospatial-function join using an implied interval join. In an embodiment, a database platform receives a query that includes a geospatial-function join, which applies a geospatial-function predicate to a first geography data object of a first relation and a second geography data object of a second relation. The database platform processes the first and second relations through an interval join that applies an interval-join predicate that is implied by the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform obtains query results at least in part by implementing a filter that applies the geospatial-function predicate to an output of the interval join, and outputs the query results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Simon Holm Jensen, Spyridon Triantafyllis
  • Patent number: 11709866
    Abstract: A distributed database compaction system can perform compaction for transactional queries in an asynchronous matter without affecting completion of the queries. The compaction system can implement asynchronous transformation of key pairs in the database, and older keys can be periodically purged using a scheduled compactor. Subsequent queries use the compacted stored keys to perform efficient queries with direct reads of committed transactions and more efficient access to key values stores of the distributed database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Luo, Alexander Miller, William Waddington, Zhaohui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11709818
    Abstract: The subject technology receives a first transaction, the first transaction to be executed on linearizable storage. The subject technology assigns, prior to performing a read operation, a first read version to the first transaction, the first read version indicating a first version of the linearizable storage, the first read version corresponding to a particular timestamp of a current time. The subject technology performs the read operation from the first transaction on a table in a database. The subject technology determines a first commit version identifier corresponding to first data resulting from the read operation. The subject technology proceeds to perform a particular write operation from the first transaction. The subject technology determines that the first commit version identifier fails to match a second commit version identifier corresponding to a second transaction. The subject technology aborts the particular write operation from the first transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Miller, William Waddington