Patents by Inventor Scott Alan Shurts

Scott Alan Shurts 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).

  • Method and apparatus for performing a join query in a database system
    Patent number: 5987453
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating a response to a join. Two tables are divided into fragments. A join fragment map identifies, for each respective fragment from the first table, the fragments from the second table which contain a record that satisfies the join predicate with a record from the respective fragment from the first table. The map is used to eliminate fragments which cannot satisfy the join predicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Informix Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Murali M. Krishna, Anurag Kashyap, Robert Howard Gerber, Paul Sherwood Taylor, Scott Alan Shurts, Shengsong Ni, Prakash Sundaresan