Patents by Inventor Robert Bruce Woods, III

Robert Bruce Woods, III 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).

  • System and method for management of a database system
    Patent number: 11132376
    Abstract: A system can comprise one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for a write operation of an input record in a data store associated with a sharded database and an alternate-key-global-index (AKGI) database; generating a new optimistic lock value, the new optimistic lock value being unique in the sharded database; when the data store does not include a data record associated with the input record, creating the dummy data record in the data store; locking the data record for the write operation by setting the DROpLock of the data record to the new optimistic lock value; and performing the write operation of the input record in the AKGI database and the sharded database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Christopher Sardina, William R. Eschenbruecher, III, Jun Yi, Yi Lu, Nitin Chhabra, III, Ying Zhang, Alexei Olkhovskii, Robert Bruce Woods, III, Scott Melvin Harvester, Robert Perry Lowell
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF A DATABASE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190266169
    Abstract: A system can comprise one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request for a write operation of an input record in a data store associated with a sharded database and an alternate-key-global-index (AKGI) database; generating a new optimistic lock value, the new optimistic lock value being unique in the sharded database; when the data store does not include a data record associated with the input record, creating the dummy data record in the data store; locking the data record for the write operation by setting the DROpLock of the data record to the new optimistic lock value; and performing the write operation of the input record in the AKGI database and the sharded database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Christopher Sardina, William R. Eschenbruecher, III, Jun Yi, Yi Lu, Nitin Chhabra, III, Ying Zhang, Alexei Olkhovskii, Robert Bruce Woods, III, Scott Melvin Harvester, Robert Perry Lowell