US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 14 for "Anisotropic compression as applied to columnar storage formats" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,090, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Anisotropic compression as applied to columnar storage formats" was invented by Shrikumar Hariharasubrahmanian (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jean-Pierre Dijcks (Belmont, Calif.) and Jacco Draaijer (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein are spatially scalable techniques for anisotropic compression of shared entropy between alternate representations of same data. In an embodiment, a computer compresses an uncompressed independent column into a compressed independent column. Based on the compressed independent column, an uncompressed dep...