Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Tarin

Stephen A. Tarin 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).

  • Publication number: 20080235250
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Publication number: 20080059412
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, low cardinality fields (attributes) may be combined into a single field (referred to as a “combined field”) having values representing the various combinations of the original fields. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the data values for several fields may be stored in a single value list (referred to as a “union column”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Publication number: 20080059492
    Abstract: Systems and methods for clustered access to as many columns as possible given a particular ongoing query mix and a constrained amount of disk space is disclosed. A compressed database is split into group of columns, each column having duplicates removed and being sorted. Then certain groups are transferred to a fast memory depending on the record of previously received queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Patent number: 7076507
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute. Low cardinality fields may be combined into a single field having values representing the various combinations of the original fields. In one embodiment, the “combined field” contains only instantiated combinations. In another embodiment, the combined field contains all values in the Cartesian product of the original fields, preferably in nested sort order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Required Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Publication number: 20040059750
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute is stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in sort order and/or condensed form. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Required Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Patent number: 6606638
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Required Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Patent number: 6513041
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute. Low cardinality fields may be combined into a single field having values representing the various combinations of the original fields. In one embodiment, the “combined field” contains only instantiated combinations. In another embodiment, the combined field contains all values in the Cartesian product of the original fields, preferably in nested sort order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Required Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin
  • Patent number: 6009432
    Abstract: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute is stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in sort order and/or condensed form. Instances of each data value for an attribute are identified by instance elements, each of which is associated with one data value. Connectivity information is provided for each instance element that uniquely associates each instance element with a specific instance of a data value for another attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Required Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen A. Tarin