Patents by Inventor Frances Villafuerte

Frances Villafuerte 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).

  • Partition by growth table space
    Publication number: 20070198591
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a table space for a database. The table space is searched to find available free space in a set of partitions in the table space in response to receiving a request to insert a record into a database table in the database. A new partition is created for the table space based on a size for the new partition in response to determining free space is unavailable for the record in the set of partitions. The record is inserted into the new partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Teng, Frances Villafuerte, Julie Watts
  • System and method for concurrently reorganizing logically related LOB table spaces
    Publication number: 20050086269
    Abstract: A base table and related auxiliary table spaces are reorganized concurrently via a database utility. The database utility determines which auxiliary tables are related to the base table and automatically includes their respective auxiliary table in the same invocation of the utility. The reorganization is performed via allocated shadow data sets. The original data sets are switched with the newly built shadow data sets including the LOB shadows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Julie Chen, William Franklin, John Garth, Li-Mey Lee, John Lyle, Frances Villafuerte, Jay Yothers