Patents by Inventor Andre P. SMITH

Andre P. SMITH 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).

  • Publication number: 20140372448
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for distributing structured data sets. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises operations performed by one or more processors, including receiving structured data, the structured data including a plurality of entity data elements and one or more relationship data elements; assigning universal identifiers to the entity data elements; and determining one or more relationship instances, the one or more relationship instances corresponding to one or more relationships between the assigned universal identifiers according to the one or more relationship data elements. The method also includes segmenting the entity data elements into sub elements having types, and distributing the sub elements among a plurality of entity partitions and distributing the determined one or more relationship instances among one or more relationship partitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: ANDREW S. OLSON, Scott M. COPLIN, Martin L. FULLER, Andre P. SMITH, Joseph F. SJOSTROM