Patents by Inventor Bjoern Carlin

Bjoern Carlin 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).

  • Processing bulk deletions in distributed databases
    Patent number: 8818971
    Abstract: Systems and methods for deleting non-key values from an index distributed over a plurality of computing devices maintains a non-key master list that includes the non-key values that are stored on each of the plurality of computing devices and receives a list of non-key values to delete. The systems and methods further intersect the list of non-key values to delete with the non-key master list, creating a first delete list for a first one of the plurality of computing devices that includes non-key values to be deleted that are stored on the first computing device. The systems and methods further transmit the first delete list to the first computing device and update the non-key master list based on the list of non-key values to delete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus Fontoura, Jan Hendrik Pieper, Krishna Tatavarthi, Bjoern Carlin, Hsiang-ling Lin