Patents by Inventor Mark Hodgens

Mark Hodgens 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).

  • ALGORITHMIC COMPRESSION VIA USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS
    Publication number: 20120078860
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing data in a computer system. One or more user-defined functions (UDFs) implementing a desired compression or decompression algorithm are created, wherein the UDFs are associated with one or more columns of a table when the table is created or altered, in order to perform compression or decompression of data stored in the associated columns, such that the data is compressed by the UDF implementing the desired compression algorithm when the data is inserted or updated in the table, and the data is decompressed by the UDF implementing the desired decompression algorithm when the data is retrieved from the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: TERADATA US, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Roberts, Venkata Ramakrishna Tirunagari, Harish Ramachandran, Frederick Kaufmann, Aikyatha Kamalakar, Mark Hodgens, Donald Pederson