Patents by Inventor Peter Povinec

Peter Povinec 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: 20230169095
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating processing units as part of a data warehouse. The processing units access data within one or more databases in cloud storage resources. The method also includes providing one or more queries to each processing unit within the data warehouse. In response to the queries, each processing unit performs database operations on a particular portion of a database table. The method also includes monitoring a workload of the processing units to determine that a processing capacity of the processing units has reached a threshold processing capacity. The method also includes dynamically adding additional processing units to and removing processing units from the data warehouse as needed based on a workload of the processing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec
  • Publication number: 20230141317
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a database platform maintains a first account and a second account, where the second account has stored therein an attachable-and-detachable database session. The database platform receives, from a second-account user in the second account, a request to grant, to a first-account user in the first account, access to the attachable-and-detachable database session, and responsively grants the requested access. The database platform receives, from the first-account user, an attachment request requesting that the first-account user attach to the attachable-and-detachable database session, and responsively sets the attachable-and-detachable database session as a current database session for the first-account user. The database platform executes at least one command received from the first-account user with respect to the attachable-and-detachable database session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Tyler Jones, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11630850
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating a plurality of compute clusters as part of a virtual warehouse. The compute clusters are used to access and perform queries against one or more databases in one or more cloud storage resources. The method includes providing queries for the virtual warehouse to each of the plurality of compute clusters. Each of the plurality of compute clusters of the virtual warehouse receives a plurality of queries so that the computing load is spread across the different clusters. The method also includes dynamically adding compute clusters to and removing compute clusters from the virtual warehouse as needed based on a workload of the plurality of compute clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec, Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11620313
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating a plurality of compute clusters as part of a virtual warehouse. The compute clusters are used to access and perform queries against one or more databases in one or more cloud storage resources. The method includes providing queries for the virtual warehouse to each of the plurality of compute clusters. Each of the plurality of compute clusters of the virtual warehouse receives a plurality of queries so that the computing load is spread across the different clusters. The method also includes dynamically adding compute clusters to and removing compute clusters from the virtual warehouse as needed based on a workload of the plurality of compute clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec, Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11615117
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating a plurality of compute clusters as part of a virtual warehouse. The compute clusters are used to access and perform queries against one or more databases in one or more cloud storage resources. The method includes providing queries for the virtual warehouse to each of the plurality of compute clusters. Each of the plurality of compute clusters of the virtual warehouse receives a plurality of queries so that the computing load is spread across the different clusters. The method also includes dynamically adding compute clusters to and removing compute clusters from the virtual warehouse as needed based on a workload of the plurality of compute clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec, Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11615118
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating processing units as part of a data warehouse. The processing units access data within one or more databases in cloud storage resources. The method also includes providing one or more queries to each processing unit within the data warehouse. In response to the queries, each processing unit performs database operations on a particular portion of a database table. The method also includes monitoring a workload of the processing units to determine that a processing capacity of the processing units has reached a threshold processing capacity. The method also includes dynamically adding additional processing units to and removing processing units from the data warehouse as needed based on a workload of the processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec
  • Publication number: 20230089449
    Abstract: Using container-centric managed access, an administrator is enabled to define a set of future grants for each object that will be created in the future in a container managed by the administrator. When a user creates a database object, the system checks the future grants to determine if any apply to the user, the database object, or the combination. Any applicable future grants are applied to the database object before the user is allowed to modify it. As a result, the administrator is enabled to control the privileges associated with the database object even before the database object is created, while restricting individual object owners from managing privileges on their owned objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Artin Avanes, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Peter Povinec
  • Publication number: 20230070935
    Abstract: A command to load or unload data at a storage location is received. In response to the command, a storage integration object associated with the storage location is identified. The storage integration object identifies a cloud identity object that corresponds to a cloud identity that is associated with a proxy identity object corresponding to a proxy identity granted permission to access the storage location. The data is loaded or unloaded at the storage location by assuming the proxy identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Polita Paulus, Peter Povinec, Saurin Shah, Srinidhi Karthik Bisthavalli Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 11593403
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating processing units as part of a data warehouse. The processing units access data within one or more databases in cloud storage resources. The method also includes providing one or more queries to each processing unit within the data warehouse. In response to the queries, each processing unit performs database operations on a particular portion of a database table. The method also includes monitoring a workload of the processing units to determine that a processing capacity of the processing units has reached a threshold processing capacity. The method also includes dynamically adding additional processing units to and removing processing units from the data warehouse as needed based on a workload of the processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11593404
    Abstract: A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating processing units as part of a data warehouse. The processing units access data within one or more databases in cloud storage resources. The method also includes providing one or more queries to each processing unit within the data warehouse. In response to the queries, each processing unit performs database operations on a particular portion of a database table. The method also includes monitoring a workload of the processing units to determine that a processing capacity of the processing units has reached a threshold processing capacity. The method also includes dynamically adding additional processing units to and removing processing units from the data warehouse as needed based on a workload of the processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Florian Andreas Funke, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11586761
    Abstract: A method for encrypting database files includes generating a mapping for a plurality of encrypted files. A first encrypted file of the plurality of encrypted files is encrypted with a first encryption key. The method includes generating a second encrypted file by re-encrypting, for a period of time, data in the first encrypted file using a second encryption key. The first encrypted file remains accessible to one or more queries during the period of time. The method includes updating the mapping to associate the second encrypted file with the first encrypted file. The mapping is updated after the second encrypted file has been generated. The method includes preventing a query from accessing the first encrypted file after the second encrypted file has been generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Peter Povinec, Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner, Martin Hentschel
  • Patent number: 11544224
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for attachable-and-detachable database sessions. In an embodiment, a database platform receives an attachment request from a client during a connection-specific database session that is set as a current database session for the client at the database platform, requesting that the client attach to an attachable-and-detachable database session that is maintained in data storage by the database platform. The database platform sets, in response to receiving the attachment request, the attachable-and-detachable database session as the current database session for the client at the database platform. The database platform determines that the client has detached from the attachable-and-detachable database session, and continues to maintain the attachable-and-detachable database session in the data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Jones, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11544399
    Abstract: Using container-centric managed access, an administrator is enabled to define a set of future grants for each object that will be created in the future in a container managed by the administrator. When a user creates a database object, the system checks the future grants to determine if any apply to the user, the database object, or the combination. Any applicable future grants are applied to the database object before the user is allowed to modify it. As a result, the administrator is enabled to control the privileges associated with the database object even before the database object is created, while restricting individual object owners from managing privileges on their owned objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Artin Avanes, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11522860
    Abstract: A command to load or unload data at a storage location is received. In response to the command, a storage integration object associated with the storage location is identified. The storage integration object identifies a cloud identity object that corresponds to a cloud identity that is associated with a proxy identity object corresponding to a proxy identity granted permission to access the storage location. The data is loaded or unloaded at the storage location by assuming the proxy identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Polita Paulus, Peter Povinec, Saurin Shah, Srinidhi Karthik Bisthavalli Srinivasa
  • Publication number: 20220318419
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for implementing secure user-defined function (UDF) in a multi-tenant database system are disclosed. A method includes receiving a grant to access a share object comprising usage functionality associated with a secure UDF to underlying data. The method includes accessing the share object using the grant. The method includes causing a share component to implement the secure view and the usage functionality associated with the secure UDF.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Allison Waingold Lee, Peter Povinec, Martin Hentschel, Robert Muglia
  • Publication number: 20220229925
    Abstract: Using container-centric managed access, an administrator is enabled to define a set of future grants for each object that will be created in the future in a container managed by the administrator. When a user creates a database object, the system checks the future grants to determine if any apply to the user, the database object, or the combination. Any applicable future grants are applied to the database object before the user is allowed to modify it. As a result, the administrator is enabled to control the privileges associated with the database object even before the database object is created, while restricting individual object owners from managing privileges on their owned objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Artin Avanes, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Peter Povinec
  • Publication number: 20220222365
    Abstract: A method for sharing data in a multi-tenant database includes generating a share object in a first account comprising a share role. The method includes associating one or more access rights with the share role, wherein the one or more access rights indicate which objects in the first account are accessible based on the share object. The method includes granting, to a second account, cross-account access rights to the share role or share object in the first account. The method includes receiving a request from the second account to access data or services of the first account. The method further includes providing a response to the second account based on the data or services of the first account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Martin Hentschel, Peter Povinec
  • Publication number: 20220222217
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for attachable-and-detachable database sessions. In an embodiment, a database platform receives an attachment request from a client during a connection-specific database session that is set as a current database session for the client at the database platform, requesting that the client attach to an attachable-and-detachable database session that is maintained in data storage by the database platform. The database platform sets, in response to receiving the attachment request, the attachable-and-detachable database session as the current database session for the client at the database platform. The database platform determines that the client has detached from the attachable-and-detachable database session, and continues to maintain the attachable-and-detachable database session in the data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Tyler Jones, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11386220
    Abstract: A method for sharing data in a multi-tenant database includes receiving, by a target account of a multiple tenant database, access rights of a share object in a first account of the multiple tenant database, wherein the share object having access rights to a database object of the first account and wherein access to the database object of the first account by the target account is based on the access rights of the share object. The method also includes receiving, by one or more processors of the target account, access rights to an alias object, wherein the alias object references the database object of the first account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Martin Hentschel, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11379605
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for secure view-based data sharing are disclosed. A method in accordance with embodiments disclosed herein comprises associating, by one or more processors, view privileges of a secure view with one or more of a plurality of underlying details of a share object of a first account such that each of the one or more underlying details of the share object comprises a definition of the secure view. The method further comprises: in response to receiving a request from a second account to access any underlying details of the share object, using a secure projection that does not match any rewrite rule preconditions to rewrite a query plan of the request to prevent expressions that do not originate from the secure view from being pushed down below a boundary of the secure view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SNOWFLAKE INC.
    Inventors: Allison Waingold Lee, Peter Povinec, Martin Hentschel, Robert Muglia