Guarav Sareen

Title: Guarav Sareen and His Patent for Rapid Index Metadata Updates.

Introduction

Guarav Sareen is an inventor associated with Sammamish, Washington, and Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. His patent work addresses how search systems can keep index information current as documents change.

Latest Patents

The provided information lists one patent for Sareen: “Rapid Update of Index Metadata.” The patent describes systems and methods for updating an in-memory index after documents covered by a search engine’s inverted index are modified. An update file is distributed to index-serving machines, which determine whether the changes apply to their stored mappings and, when relevant, use the file to revise their in-memory indexes. These indexes can help serve user queries alongside the inverted index. The patent also describes maintaining a separate in-memory index for incoming metadata updates and periodically swapping it with the existing index. Sareen is credited with 1 patent.

Career Highlights

Sareen’s listed patent reflects work on search infrastructure, particularly the efficient handling of document metadata changes. The disclosed approach aims to make updated information available to search systems without requiring every index-serving machine to process irrelevant modifications.

Collaborations

The provided information names Pratibha Permandla and Yinzhe Yu as Sareen’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe particular collaborations.

Conclusion

Guarav Sareen’s listed invention focuses on keeping search indexes responsive to changing document metadata through targeted in-memory updates.