Patents by Inventor RICHARD HEYNS

RICHARD HEYNS 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).

  • ALGORITHM TO APPLY A PREDICATE TO DATA SETS
    Publication number: 20210216573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for analysing a pair of data sets with respect to a predicate, the predicate having a predicate criterion, each data set comprising one or more elements sorted according to the predicate criterion. The invention comprises recursive partitioning of the data sets in a parallel manner across multiple computing cores until a base case is reached. The invention is particularly suited for carrying out join, filter and sort operations on large data sets within database management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: RICHARD HEYNS
  • Algorithm to apply a predicate to data sets
    Patent number: 10963487
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for analysing a pair of data sets with respect to a predicate, the predicate having a predicate criterion, each data set comprising one or more elements sorted according to the predicate criterion. The invention comprises recursive partitioning of the data sets in a parallel manner across multiple computing cores until a base case is reached. The invention is particularly suited for carrying out join, filter and sort operations on large data sets within database management systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: BRYTLYT LIMITED
    Inventor: Richard Heyns
  • ALGORITHM TO APPLY A PREDICATE TO DATA SETS
    Publication number: 20160253405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for analysing a pair of data sets with respect to a predicate, the predicate having a predicate criterion, each data set comprising one or more elements sorted according to the predicate criterion. The invention comprises recursive partitioning of the data sets in a parallel manner across multiple computing cores until a base case is reached. The invention is particularly suited for carrying out join, filter and sort operations on large data sets within database management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventor: RICHARD HEYNS