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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2020
Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Henry Gabriel Victor Bequet, Cary, NC (US);
Eric Jian Yang, Morrisville, NC (US);
Qing Gong, Cary, NC (US);
Kais Arfaoui, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ronald Earl Stogner, Cary, NC (US);
Partha Dutta, Morrisville, NC (US);
SAS INSTITUTE INC., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes at least on processor to: parse a job flow definition for a job flow to identify an implicit expression of a data dependency arising from a data object output by a first task of the job flow and input to a second task thereof, wherein the first task is referred to as a data object required by the second as an input; in response to identifying the implicit expression, derive an order of performance of the tasks of the job flow that includes performing the first task before the second to ensure generation of the data object prior to performance of the second; for each task, retrieve a corresponding task routine; execute the task routines in an order that follows the order of performance of the tasks; and transmit, to the requesting device via the network, an indication of successful performance of the job flow.