Patents by Inventor Patrick Clinton LITTLE

Patrick Clinton LITTLE 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: 20230315701
    Abstract: Solutions for data unification include: receiving a data record, the data record comprising a plurality of data fields; selecting, from among the plurality of data fields, a subset of the data fields, the subset of the data fields being fewer in number than the plurality of data fields, wherein selecting the subset of the data fields comprises: applying a first rule to select at least a first one of the data fields within the data record for inclusion in the subset of the data fields; using content of the subset of the data fields, generating a stable identifier (stableID) for the data record; and inserting the stableID into a primary key data field of the data record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Meiyalagan BALASUBRAMANIAN, Lengning LIU, Aditya KUPPA, Kirk Hartmann FREIHEIT, Kalen WONG, Paula Budig GREVE, Patrick Clinton LITTLE, Lucas PRITZ, Yue WANG, Vivek Ravindranath NARASAYYA, Katchaguy AREEKIJSEREE, Yehe HE, Surajit CHAUDHURI, Gaurav Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11714790
    Abstract: Solutions for data unification include: receiving a data record, the data record comprising a plurality of data fields; selecting, from among the plurality of data fields, a subset of the data fields, the subset of the data fields being fewer in number than the plurality of data fields, wherein selecting the subset of the data fields comprises: applying a first rule to select at least a first one of the data fields within the data record for inclusion in the subset of the data fields; using content of the subset of the data fields, generating a stable identifier (stableID) for the data record; and inserting the stableID into a primary key data field of the data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Meiyalagan Balasubramanian, Lengning Liu, Aditya Kuppa, Kirk Hartmann Freiheit, Kalen Wong, Paula Budig Greve, Patrick Clinton Little, Lucas Pritz, Yue Wang, Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya, Katchaguy Areekijseree, Yeye He, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gaurav Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20230098926
    Abstract: Solutions for data unification include: receiving a data record, the data record comprising a plurality of data fields; selecting, from among the plurality of data fields, a subset of the data fields, the subset of the data fields being fewer in number than the plurality of data fields, wherein selecting the subset of the data fields comprises: applying a first rule to select at least a first one of the data fields within the data record for inclusion in the subset of the data fields; using content of the subset of the data fields, generating a stable identifier (stableID) for the data record; and inserting the stableID into a primary key data field of the data record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Meiyalagan BALASUBRAMANIAN, Lengning LIU, Aditya KUPPA, Kirk Hartmann FREIHEIT, Kalen WONG, Paula Budig GREVE, Patrick Clinton LITTLE, Lucas PRITZ, Yue WANG, Vivek Ravindranath NARASAYYA, Katchaguy AREEKIJSEREE, Yeye HE, Surajit CHAUDHURI