Patents by Inventor Thomas Legler

Thomas Legler 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).

  • Patent number: 12505026
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to the enabling of object history tracking in an object-oriented programming environment. According to some examples, a tracking class includes a tracking function and a tracked class includes a tracked function. A system receives user input to link the tracked function to the tracking function. Executable code is executed to create a target object of the tracked class and to execute the tracked function with respect to the target object. Execution of the tracked function triggers the tracking function to obtain tracking data relating to the target object. The tracking data is stored as part of the target object. According to some examples, the system receives an indication of an error that occurred during execution of the executable code, retrieves the tracking data from the target object, and causes presentation of the tracking data at a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Patent number: 12332874
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a first transaction inserting a record into a database and a second transaction deleting the record from the database. A validity period for the record may be determined based on a first commit time at which the first transaction is committed and a second commit time at which the second transaction is committed. A current table and/or a history table of a system versioned table may be updated to include the record based on the validity period of the record. One or more temporal operations may be performed based on the system versioned table. For example, a time travel operation may be performed to retrieve, based on the system versioned table, one or more records that are valid at a given point in time. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Scheirle, Andreas Tonder, Carsten Thiel, Guenter Radestock, Thomas Legler, Martin Heidel, Robert Schulze, Joern Schmidt, Rolando Blanco
  • Patent number: 12235878
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to inverted indexes. According to some examples, an inverted index is generated based on source data and a posting list threshold. The inverted index comprises one or more restricted posting lists. Each restricted posting list has a maximum size corresponding to the posting list threshold. The method may include receiving a search query comprising a value that identifies a restricted posting list of the one or more restricted posting lists. The value may be used to retrieve and return one or more record identifiers from the identified restricted posting list. A record identifier uniquely identifies one of the plurality of records in the source data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Publication number: 20240427806
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to inverted indexes. According to some examples, an inverted index is generated based on source data and a posting list threshold. The inverted index comprises one or more restricted posting lists. Each restricted posting list has a maximum size corresponding to the posting list threshold. The method may include receiving a search query comprising a value that identifies a restricted posting list of the one or more restricted posting lists. The value may be used to retrieve and return one or more record identifiers from the identified restricted posting list. A record identifier uniquely identifies one of the plurality of records in the source data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Publication number: 20240427690
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to the enabling of object history tracking in an object-oriented programming environment. According to some examples, a tracking class includes a tracking function and a tracked class includes a tracked function. A system receives user input to link the tracked function to the tracking function. Executable code is executed to create a target object of the tracked class and to execute the tracked function with respect to the target object. Execution of the tracked function triggers the tracking function to obtain tracking data relating to the target object. The tracking data is stored as part of the target object. According to some examples, the system receives an indication of an error that occurred during execution of the executable code, retrieves the tracking data from the target object, and causes presentation of the tracking data at a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Patent number: 12072888
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for cooperative memory management. In one embodiment, a database management system includes a memory manager for managing a memory buffer. The memory buffer is configured to allocate memory to table data and temporary data dynamically. In some embodiments, table data memory allocations are reduced and temporary data memory allocations are increased to process queries. Temporary data memory allocations may be increased to store temporary data associated with one or more portions of a query. The memory buffer reallocates table data memory allocations and temporary data memory allocations as needed to more efficiently use available memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Robert Lasch, Thomas Legler, Norman May, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Bernhard Scheirle
  • Publication number: 20240111757
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a first transaction inserting a record into a database and a second transaction deleting the record from the database. A validity period for the record may be determined based on a first commit time at which the first transaction is committed and a second commit time at which the second transaction is committed. A current table and/or a history table of a system versioned table may be updated to include the record based on the validity period of the record. One or more temporal operations may be performed based on the system versioned table. For example, a time travel operation may be performed to retrieve, based on the system versioned table, one or more records that are valid at a given point in time. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard Scheirle, Andreas Tonder, Carsten Thiel, Guenter Radestock, Thomas Legler, Martin Heidel, Robert Schulze, Joern Schmidt, Rolando Blanco
  • Patent number: 11947994
    Abstract: A method may include determining a threshold quantity of attempts to optimistically perform a first transaction operating data stored in a database. The threshold quantity of attempts may be determined based on an expected workload of the first transaction and/or a workload at the database. The first transaction may be performed optimistically including by tracking cache lines accessed by the first transaction and detecting, based on a second transaction writing to a cache line accessed by the first transaction, a conflict between the first transaction and the second transaction. If the first transaction is not successful performed after the threshold quantity of attempts to optimistically perform the first transaction, the first transaction may be performed in a fallback mode including by acquiring a lock to prevent the second transaction from accessing a same data in the database as the first transaction. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Patent number: 11914589
    Abstract: In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method including detecting a query operator of a predetermined type requiring a sorting or a scanning responsive to the query operator at a column-oriented database; determining a sorted dictionary at the column-oriented database is eligible for direct access by at least checking that the column-oriented database provides sorted dictionary access and that dictionary collation and a collation of the query operator are the same; when the sorted dictionary is eligible, reading directly from the sorted dictionary a batch of sorted values; and processing, based on the batch sorted values read from the sorted dictionary, the query operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Oliver Horn, Thomas Legler, Robert Schulze
  • Patent number: 11886424
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a first transaction inserting a record into a database and a second transaction deleting the record from the database. A validity period for the record may be determined based on a first commit time at which the first transaction is committed and a second commit time at which the second transaction is committed. A current table and/or a history table of a system versioned table may be updated to include the record based on the validity period of the record. One or more temporal operations may be performed based on the system versioned table. For example, a time travel operation may be performed to retrieve, based on the system versioned table, one or more records that are valid at a given point in time. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Scheirle, Andreas Tonder, Carsten Thiel, Guenter Radestock, Thomas Legler, Martin Heidel, Robert Schulze, Joern Schmidt, Rolando Blanco
  • Patent number: 11789741
    Abstract: A method for optimizing memory access for database operations is provided. The method may include performing a first database operation by at least executing a first instruction stream associated with the first database operation. The first database operation may be defined as a coroutine to at least enable the execution of the first instruction stream to be interleaved with an execution of a second instruction stream. In response to determining that data required to continue the execution of the first instruction stream is absent from a cache, the execution of the first instruction stream may be suspended and the second instruction stream may be executed instead. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Georgios Psaropoulos, Thomas Legler, Norman May, Anastasia Ailamaki
  • Patent number: 11789951
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for placement or storage of data structures in memory/storage locations. A type of a data structure for storing data and a type of data access to the data structure are determined. The type of data access includes a first and a second type of data access. A frequency of each type of access to each type of data structure accessed by a query is determined. Using the determined frequency, a number of first type of data accesses to the data structure is compared to a number of second type of accesses to the data structure. The numbers of first and second types of data access are compared to a predetermined threshold percentage of a total number of data accesses to the data structure. Based on the comparisons, a physical memory location for storing data is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Robert Lasch, Thomas Legler, Robert Schulze, Kai-Uwe Sattler
  • Patent number: 11726975
    Abstract: A system for unloading tables of a database is provided. In some aspects, the system performs operations including determining that a number of accesses to a table occurring within a time period has satisfied an access threshold. The operations may further include identifying, in response to the determining, a first timestamp indicating a most recent access to the table. The operations may further include determining whether a difference between a current timestamp and the first timestamp satisfies a first time threshold. The operations may further include comparing, in response to the difference satisfying the first time threshold, a ratio of the difference and a size of the table to a ratio threshold. The operations may further include unloading, in response to satisfying the ratio threshold, the table. The operations may further include adjusting, based on the feedback, the first time threshold and/or the ratio threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Klaus Otto Mueller, Thomas Legler
  • Patent number: 11714795
    Abstract: A system includes storage of data into a target memory location allocated to a target leaf node of a tree-based index structure, the target leaf node being a child node of a parent node of the tree-based index structure, where the tree-based index structure comprises one or more other leaf nodes which are child nodes of the parent node, and each of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes is associated with a plurality of allocated memory locations, incremental identification of all unused allocated memory locations between a first allocated memory location of a left-most one of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes and a last used allocated memory location of a right-most one of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes, and movement of data stored in the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes into the identified unused allocated memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Publication number: 20230086449
    Abstract: A system includes storage of data into a target memory location allocated to a target leaf node of a tree-based index structure, the target leaf node being a child node of a parent node of the tree-based index structure, where the tree-based index structure comprises one or more other leaf nodes which are child nodes of the parent node, and each of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes is associated with a plurality of allocated memory locations, incremental identification of all unused allocated memory locations between a first allocated memory location of a left-most one of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes and a last used allocated memory location of a right-most one of the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes, and movement of data stored in the target leaf node and the one or more other leaf nodes into the identified unused allocated memory locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas LEGLER
  • Publication number: 20230086162
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a first transaction inserting a record into a database and a second transaction deleting the record from the database. A validity period for the record may be determined based on a first commit time at which the first transaction is committed and a second commit time at which the second transaction is committed. A current table and/or a history table of a system versioned table may be updated to include the record based on the validity period of the record. One or more temporal operations may be performed based on the system versioned table. For example, a time travel operation may be performed to retrieve, based on the system versioned table, one or more records that are valid at a given point in time. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Bernhard Scheirle, Andreas Tonder, Carsten Thiel, Guenter Radestock, Thomas Legler, Martin Heidel, Robert Schulze, Joern Schmidt, Rolando Blanco
  • Publication number: 20220405288
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for placement or storage of data structures in memory/storage locations. A type of a data structure for storing data and a type of data access to the data structure are determined. The type of data access includes a first and a second type of data access. A frequency of each type of access to each type of data structure accessed by a query is determined. Using the determined frequency, a number of first type of data accesses to the data structure is compared to a number of second type of accesses to the data structure. The numbers of first and second types of data access are compared to a predetermined threshold percentage of a total number of data accesses to the data structure. Based on the comparisons, a physical memory location for storing data is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Lasch, Thomas Legler, Robert Schulze, Kai-Uwe Sattler
  • Patent number: 11520763
    Abstract: There is provided a method for compressing a first tree data structure. The method includes determining, by a processor, to compress a first tree data structure associated with a dictionary of a database management system. The method further includes compressing the first tree data structure to generate a compressed tree data structure. The compressing includes traversing, by the processor and in response to the determining, the first tree data structure on a lowest level. The compressing further includes identifying, by the processor and in response to traversing, empty nodes on the lowest level. The compressing further includes removing the identified empty nodes to compress the lowest level. The compressing further includes constructing, in response to the removing, a second level of the compressed tree data structure based on the compressed lowest level, the second level higher in the compressed tree data structure than the compressed lowest level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Thomas Legler
  • Publication number: 20220261391
    Abstract: A system for unloading tables of a database is provided. In some aspects, the system performs operations including determining that a number of accesses to a table occurring within a time period has satisfied an access threshold. The operations may further include identifying, in response to the determining, a first timestamp indicating a most recent access to the table. The operations may further include determining whether a difference between a current timestamp and the first timestamp satisfies a first time threshold. The operations may further include comparing, in response to the difference satisfying the first time threshold, a ratio of the difference and a size of the table to a ratio threshold. The operations may further include unloading, in response to satisfying the ratio threshold, the table. The operations may further include adjusting, based on the feedback, the first time threshold and/or the ratio threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Klaus Otto Mueller, Thomas Legler
  • Patent number: 11347710
    Abstract: A system for unloading tables of a database is provided. In some aspects, the system performs operations including determining that a number of accesses to a table occurring within a time period has satisfied an access threshold. The operations may further include identifying, in response to the determining, a first timestamp indicating a most recent access to the table. The operations may further include determining whether a difference between a current timestamp and the first timestamp satisfies a first time threshold. The operations may further include comparing, in response to the difference satisfying the first time threshold, a ratio of the difference and a size of the table to a ratio threshold. The operations may further include unloading, in response to satisfying the ratio threshold, the table. The operations may further include adjusting, based on the feedback, the first time threshold and/or the ratio threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Klaus Otto Mueller, Thomas Legler