Patents by Inventor Suvasish Sharma

Suvasish Sharma 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).

  • Minimizing computer resource usage when converting data types of a table column
    Patent number: 8935294
    Abstract: Online conversion procedures avoid the need to generate a copy of an entire table in order to convert the data type of a column in the table. To convert a table's column to a new data type, a replacement column is created in the table, the replacement column having the new data type. A background process dedicated to converting the column translates values in the column of the old data type to the new data type and stores the converted values in the replacement column. In addition, as transactions of users are applied to rows in the table, the value in the column of the old data type in the rows is converted and stored in the replacement column. Once the background process completes, the replacement column is used in lieu of the converted column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jayaprakash Vijayan, Kenton Noble, Subash Chadalavada, Sujith Sreedharan, Suvasish Sharma
  • Minimizing computer resource usage when converting data types of a table column
    Publication number: 20070038590
    Abstract: Online conversion procedures avoid the need to generate a copy of an entire table in order to convert the data type of a column in the table. To convert a table's column to a new data type, a replacement column is created in the table, the replacement column having the new data type. A background process dedicated to converting the column translates values in the column of the old data type to the new data type and stores the converted values in the replacement column. In addition, as transactions of users are applied to rows in the table, the value in the column of the old data type in the rows is converted and stored in the replacement column. Once the background process completes, the replacement column is used in lieu of the converted column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Jayaprakash Vijayan, Kenton Noble, Subash Chadalavada, Sujith Sreedharan, Suvasish Sharma