Patents by Inventor Emily Lawton

Emily Lawton 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).

  • Schema-agnostic indexing of distributed databases
    Patent number: 11030185
    Abstract: Data sets such as databases are often distributed over a number of servers, where each server stores a subset of records and an index that enables the server to locate the records in response to queries. However, tight coupling of indexing and storage may limit load-balancing, fault recovery, and distribution. Instead, the set of servers may be partitioned into a set of storage servers that store the records and a set of index servers of the index over the records. In a set that is decoupled in this manner, load-balancing may involve provisioning and locating index servers independently of the provisioning and locating of the storage servers in view of the particular sensitivities and tolerances of various applications. Additionally, the index servers may also utilize a data layout that is selected and adapted independent of the data layout of the storage servers and/or the schema of the data stored thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Karthik Raman, Momin Mahmoud Al-Ghosien, Samer Boshra, Brandon Chong, Madhan Gajendran, Mikhail Mikhailovich Koltachev, Aravind Ramachandran Krishna, Emily Lawton, Liang Li, Karan Vishwanath Popali, Adrian Ilcu Predescu, Ankur Savailal Shah, Pankaj Sharma, Dharma Shukla, Hari Sudan Sundar, Krishnan Sundaram, Shireesh Kumar Thota
  • SCHEMA-AGNOSTIC INDEXING OF DISTRIBUTED DATABASES
    Publication number: 20190340273
    Abstract: Data sets such as databases are often distributed over a number of servers, where each server stores a subset of records and an index that enables the server to locate the records in response to queries. However, tight coupling of indexing and storage may limit load-balancing, fault recovery, and distribution. Instead, the set of servers may be partitioned into a set of storage servers that store the records and a set of index servers of the index over the records. In a set that is decoupled in this manner, load-balancing may involve provisioning and locating index servers independently of the provisioning and locating of the storage servers in view of the particular sensitivities and tolerances of various applications. Additionally, the index servers may also utilize a data layout that is selected and adapted independent of the data layout of the storage servers and/or the schema of the data stored thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Karthik Raman, Momin Mahmoud Al-Ghosien, Samer Boshra, Brandon Chong, Madhan Gajendran, Mikhail Mikhailovich Koltachev, Aravind Ramachandran Krishna, Emily Lawton, Liang Li, Karan Vishwanath Popali, Adrian Ilcu Predescu, Ankur Savailal Shah, Pankaj Sharma, Dharma Shukla, Hari Sudan Sundar, Krishnan Sundaram, Shireesh Kumar Thota