US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 29 for "Asynchronous handling hint bits on index pages using garbage collection" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,742, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Asynchronous handling hint bits on index pages using garbage collection" was invented by Amarnadh Sai Eluri (Mountain House, Calif.), Vinay Sharma (Bangalore, India) and Prathibha Bisarahalli (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes data processing hardware and memory hardware. The memory hardware store instructions that cause the data processing hardware to obtain one or more hint bits for a B-tree index page of a database, each hint bit representing a status of a corresponding tuple of the B-tree index page and determine, using ...