US Patent Issued to Databricks on May 13 for "Multiple pass sort with subset splitting" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,952, issued on May 13, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multiple pass sort with subset splitting" was invented by Timothy Armstrong (San Francisco), Arvind Sai Krishnan (San Bruno, Calif.) and Khayyam Guliyev (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for multipass sort with subsplitting includes a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface is configured to receive from a client device a request to sort a dataset that includes a plurality of rows, where the size of the dataset is greater than a threshold size. The processor is configured to: subdivide the dataset into a plura...