Patents by Inventor Rian T. Pirtle

Rian T. Pirtle 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).

  • Patent number: 9152458
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining image search results. One of the methods includes scheduling a first computation for execution on each of a first plurality of worker processes. The first computation changes a respective state of each of one or more of the first worker processes from a first state to a second state. A respective second computation is scheduled for execution on each of a second plurality of worker, where each respective second computation will use a different value for a particular variable for two or more of the second plurality of worker processes. The respective state of each of the second plurality of worker processes is updated from the second state to a third state, where the third state corresponds to execution of the second computation using a first value of the particular variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Hellerstein, Rian T. Pirtle, Lamia Youseff