Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Minard Kizer

Geoffrey Minard Kizer 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).

  • Buffered table user index
    Patent number: 5745904
    Abstract: A computer database management system has a table buffer for buffering as yet uncommitted modifications of records in an original shared database table and a look aside index for redirecting original table accesses to the modifications in the table buffer. Record modifications in the table buffer are indexed by a modified value index having a same key structure as a user-defined index on the original table. An indexing logic performs index functions on both the user-defined index and modified value index to provide integrated indexing of the original table records and table buffer modifications with the user-defined key order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John Wesley King, Geoffrey Minard Kizer, Gregory R. Smith