Patents by Inventor Curtis N. Browning

Curtis N. Browning 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).

  • Outputting map-reduce jobs to an archive file
    Patent number: 11556496
    Abstract: Method and system are provided for writing output from map-reduce jobs to an archive file. The method may include providing an archive manager and exposing an interface to be called from map-reduce jobs to output to an archive file in a map-reduce distributed file system. The method may also include using a buffering database as a temporary cache to buffer updates to the archive file. Handling by the archive manager calls from map-reduce jobs may allow: reading directly from an archive file or from a job index at the buffering database; writing to a job index at the buffering database used as a temporary cache to buffer updates; and serializing updates from the buffering database to the archive file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Curtis N. Browning, Niall F. McCarroll
  • OUTPUTTING MAP-REDUCE JOBS TO AN ARCHIVE FILE
    Publication number: 20190079939
    Abstract: Method and system are provided for writing output from map-reduce jobs to an archive file. The method may include providing an archive manager and exposing an interface to be called from map-reduce jobs to output to an archive file in a map-reduce distributed file system. The method may also include using a buffering database as a temporary cache to buffer updates to the archive file. Handling by the archive manager calls from map-reduce jobs may allow: reading directly from an archive file or from a job index at the buffering database; writing to a job index at the buffering database used as a temporary cache to buffer updates; and serializing updates from the buffering database to the archive file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Curtis N. Browning, Niall F. McCarroll
  • Outputting map-reduce jobs to an archive file
    Patent number: 10146779
    Abstract: Method and system are provided for writing output from map-reduce jobs to an archive file. The method may include providing an archive manager and exposing an interface to be called from map-reduce jobs to output to an archive file in a map-reduce distributed file system. The method may also include using a buffering database as a temporary cache to buffer updates to the archive file. Handling by the archive manager calls from map-reduce jobs may allow: reading directly from an archive file or from a job index at the buffering database; writing to a job index at the buffering database used as a temporary cache to buffer updates; and serializing updates from the buffering database to the archive file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Curtis N. Browning, Niall F. McCarroll
  • OUTPUTTING MAP-REDUCE JOBS TO AN ARCHIVE FILE
    Publication number: 20160070711
    Abstract: Method and system are provided for writing output from map-reduce jobs to an archive file. The method may include providing an archive manager and exposing an interface to be called from map-reduce jobs to output to an archive file in a map-reduce distributed file system. The method may also include using a buffering database as a temporary cache to buffer updates to the archive file. Handling by the archive manager calls from map-reduce jobs may allow: reading directly from an archive file or from a job index at the buffering database; writing to a job index at the buffering database used as a temporary cache to buffer updates; and serializing updates from the buffering database to the archive file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Curtis N. Browning, Niall F. McCarroll