Patents by Inventor Shaji Illias Chennan Kunnummal

Shaji Illias Chennan Kunnummal 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 finding top N pairs in a map-reduce setup
    Patent number: 8788499
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a special purpose computing apparatus includes, but is not limited to, one or more processors programmed with instructions to, based at least in part, on one or more signals representative of a plurality of splits defined by a map process that implements a signature function, compute a density value for at least one of the plurality of splits, where the density value is representative of an expected contribution of the at least one split to a top N key/value pairs of a data set, the data set comprising the key/value pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Shaji Illias Chennan Kunnummal
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING TOP N PAIRS IN A MAP-REDUCE SETUP
    Publication number: 20110055243
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a special purpose computing apparatus includes, but is not limited to, one or more processors programmed with instructions to, based at least in part, on one or more signals representative of a plurality of splits defined by a map process that implements a signature function, compute a density value for at least one of the plurality of splits, where the density value is representative of an expected contribution of the at least one split to a top N key/value pairs of a data set, the data set comprising the key/value pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Shaji Illias Chennan Kunnummal