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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2001
Applicants:
Michael L. Reed, San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin D. Virgil, Oceanside, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael L. Reed, San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin D. Virgil, Oceanside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Teradata US, Inc., Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a database system, compression user-defined data types (UDTs) are defined to enable compression of data. Each compression UDT is associated with one or more UDT methods to compress data according to one or more respective compression algorithms. Also, one or more data structures are associated with data stored according to each compression UDT to store values pertaining to the compression of the data.