Patents by Inventor Mercer L. Colby

Mercer L. Colby 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).

  • Association caching
    Publication number: 20040193620
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment find a relationship between data in data caches and update an association cache with the relationship asynchronously from updates to the data caches. In an embodiment, a relationship occurs when a foreign key in a data cache matches a primary key in another data cache. The association cache may include information about the relationship, which in an embodiment may include an owner key and a list of one or more owned keys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng-Chieh Cheng, Mercer L. Colby, Eric N. Herness