Patents by Inventor C. LORNE PARSONS

C. LORNE PARSONS 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).

  • OPTIMIZING THE STORAGE OF ONE-TO-MANY EXTERNAL REFERENCES TO CONTIGUOUS REGIONS OF HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20120016908
    Abstract: A volatile memory manager of a data handling system can be configured to convert the one-to-many external reference into an external reference that references the common ancestor node of the contiguous region. Specific pathing and/or termination conditions can be contained in a Relationship_Path parameter of the external reference. The hierarchical data structure can also be loaded into volatile memory by the volatile memory manager as data structure references. The volatile memory manager can be further configured to perform various functions utilizing the external and data structure references.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: ANITA O. L. LEUNG, JOHN MOURRA, C. LORNE PARSONS, KEVIN QUAN, CRYSTAL J. SU, GRANT D. TAYLOR, HIROSHI TSUJI