Patents by Inventor Jo-Anne Kirton

Jo-Anne Kirton 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).

  • Method and apparatus for implementing partial declustering in a parallel database system
    Patent number: 5878409
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for distributing data of a table across a parallel data base system having a plurality of interlinked database nodes. The table is partitioned in accordance with a predetermined partitioning arrangement and data of the table is distributed across a subset of the nodes in accordance with the partitioning arrangement. The partitioning arrangement can comprise horizontal or vertical partitioning. The partitioning arrangement can comprise a partitioning map defining the relationship of partitions of the table to said subset of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chaitanya Baru, Gilles Fecteau, Jo-Anne Kirton, Lubor J. Kollar, Fred Koo