Patents by Inventor Haowen ZHU

Haowen ZHU 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).

  • Publication number: 20240061888
    Abstract: Software is increasingly being developed as a collection of loosely coupled applications. Loosely coupled applications exchange data by publishing data to and retrieving data from a data store, such as a database, a file located on a storage cluster, etc. Data produced by one application and consumed by another is referred to as a data dependency. In some embodiments, an application's data dependencies are identified by analyzing cached query plans associated with the application. Query plans include a hierarchical representation of a query, where non-leaf nodes represent commands and leaf nodes identify data dependencies. An application's data dependencies are identified by traversing the hierarchical representation of the query. Data dependencies consumed by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a read command, while data dependencies produced by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a write command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Sizhong Liu, Zou Qingnan, YI Liu, Ian Chi-Yee MA, Haowen Zhu
  • Patent number: 11836190
    Abstract: Software is increasingly being developed as a collection of loosely coupled applications. Loosely coupled applications exchange data by publishing data to and retrieving data from a data store, such as a database, a file located on a storage cluster, etc. Data produced by one application and consumed by another is referred to as a data dependency. In some embodiments, an application's data dependencies are identified by analyzing cached query plans associated with the application. Query plans include a hierarchical representation of a query, where non-leaf nodes represent commands and leaf nodes identify data dependencies. An application's data dependencies are identified by traversing the hierarchical representation of the query. Data dependencies consumed by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a read command, while data dependencies produced by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a write command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Sizhong Liu, Zou Qingnan, Yi Liu, Ian Chi-Yee Ma, Haowen Zhu
  • Patent number: 11734291
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing an application programming interface (“API”) for executing a query are provided. The API call, scheduling, and assignment processing engines may generate and schedule assignments, along with associated dataset portions, based on the query. Based on the assignments and datasets, the assignments may be scheduled for execution by processes of nodes in a distributed system. The API call and query may also include implementation instructions that require storing dataset portions into memory that is associated with a process executing the assignment for an in-memory database implementation. As the assignment is executed using a dataset portion that is stored on memory associated with a process, results may be stored in a file. Once each assignment has been executed and has a result file, the result files are merged to provide results of the query and API call to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Qingyu Ji, Bin Li, Sizhong Liu, Haowen Zhu, Peijun Xu, Chinmaya Dubey
  • Publication number: 20220171811
    Abstract: Software is increasingly being developed as a collection of loosely coupled applications. Loosely coupled applications exchange data by publishing data to and retrieving data from a data store, such as a database, a file located on a storage cluster, etc. Data produced by one application and consumed by another is referred to as a data dependency. In some embodiments, an application's data dependencies are identified by analyzing cached query plans associated with the application. Query plans include a hierarchical representation of a query, where non-leaf nodes represent commands and leaf nodes identify data dependencies. An application's data dependencies are identified by traversing the hierarchical representation of the query. Data dependencies consumed by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a read command, while data dependencies produced by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a write command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Sizhong Liu, Zou Qingnan, YI Liu, Ian Chi-Yee MA, Haowen Zhu
  • Publication number: 20220121662
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing an application programming interface (“API”) for executing a query are provided. The API call, scheduling, and assignment processing engines may generate and schedule assignments, along with associated dataset portions, based on the query. Based on the assignments and datasets, the assignments may be scheduled for execution by processes of nodes in a distributed system. The API call and query may also include implementation instructions that require storing dataset portions into memory that is associated with a process executing the assignment for an in-memory database implementation. As the assignment is executed using a dataset portion that is stored on memory associated with a process, results may be stored in a file. Once each assignment has been executed and has a result file, the result files are merged to provide results of the query and API call to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yi LIU, Qingyu JI, Bin LI, Sizhong LIU, Haowen ZHU, Peijun XU, Chinmaya DUBEY
  • Patent number: 11301517
    Abstract: Software is increasingly being developed as a collection of loosely coupled applications. Loosely coupled applications exchange data by publishing data to and retrieving data from a data store, such as a database, a file located on a storage cluster, etc. Data produced by one application and consumed by another is referred to as a data dependency. In some embodiments, an application's data dependencies are identified by analyzing cached query plans associated with the application. Query plans include a hierarchical representation of a query, where non-leaf nodes represent commands and leaf nodes identify data dependencies. An application's data dependencies are identified by traversing the hierarchical representation of the query. Data dependencies consumed by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a read command, while data dependencies produced by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a write command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Sizhong Liu, Zou Qingnan, Yi Liu, Ian Chi-Yee Ma, Haowen Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210349946
    Abstract: Software is increasingly being developed as a collection of loosely coupled applications. Loosely coupled applications exchange data by publishing data to and retrieving data from a data store, such as a database, a file located on a storage cluster, etc. Data produced by one application and consumed by another is referred to as a data dependency. In some embodiments, an application's data dependencies are identified by analyzing cached query plans associated with the application. Query plans include a hierarchical representation of a query, where non-leaf nodes represent commands and leaf nodes identify data dependencies. An application's data dependencies are identified by traversing the hierarchical representation of the query. Data dependencies consumed by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a read command, while data dependencies produced by the application are identified by finding leaf nodes that descend from a write command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Sizhong LIU, Zou QINGNAN, Yi LIU, Ian Chi-Yee MA, Haowen ZHU