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Uxbridge, Canada

Ian R Finlay

This inventor holds 57 USPTO granted patents and 3 published patent applications, plus 3 CIPO patents, primarily in Database Optimization (CPC class G06F). Top assignee: International Business Machines Corporation. Active years: 1994-2026.

USPTO Granted Patents = 57 

% Patents Active = 42.1


Average Co-Inventor Count = 2.7

ph-index = 7

Forward Citations = 217(Granted Patents)

Forward Citations (Not Self Cited) = 194(Dec 10, 2025)


Inventors with similar research interests:


Location History:

  • Scarborough, CA (1999)
  • Ontario, CA (1994 - 2020)
  • Uxbridge, CA (2005 - 2023)

Company Filing History:

goldMedal57 out of 166,264 
 
International Business Machines Corporation
 patents

Years Active: 1994-2026

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Areas of Expertise:
Global Query Optimization
Distributed Databases
Metadata Compression
Data Partitioning
Query Processing
Memory Tuning
Bloom Filter
Parallel Processing
Synopsis Tables
Optimizer Problem
Row-Level Filtering
Efficient Join-Filters
57 patents (USPTO):Explore Patents
1. 12566760 - Global query optimization (2026-03-03),
2. 11727022 - Generating a global delta in distributed databases (2023-08-15),
3. 11704327 - Querying distributed databases (2023-07-18),
4. 11216436 - Optimization of metadata via lossy compression (2022-01-04),
5. 11042544 - Derived data dictionary for optimizing transformations of encoded data (2021-06-22),
6. 11036737 - Partitioned bloom filter merge for massively parallel processing clustered data management (2021-06-15),
7. 11023464 - Reducing temp size over a base table (2021-06-01),
8. 10942784 - Database resource scaling (2021-03-09),
9. 10903851 - Page filtering via compression dictionary filtering (2021-01-26),
10. 10903850 - Page filtering via compression dictionary filtering (2021-01-26),
11. 10725995 - Automatically revising synopsis table structure (2020-07-28),
12. 10725994 - Automatically revising synopsis table structure (2020-07-28),
13. 10719512 - Partitioned bloom filter merge for massively parallel processing clustered data management (2020-07-21),
14. 10691687 - Pruning of columns in synopsis tables (2020-06-23),
15. 10649991 - Pruning of columns in synopsis tables (2020-05-12),

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