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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:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Applicants:
Harumi Kuno, Cupertino, CA (US);
Goetz Graefe, Madison, WI (US);
Wojciech Golab, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Harumi Kuno, Cupertino, CA (US);
Goetz Graefe, Madison, WI (US);
Wojciech Golab, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer apparatus and related method to reduce database congestion is provided. In one aspect, the computer apparatus and method may generate a new partition within a hierarchical data structure of interlinked nodes, if a distribution of key values stored in the hierarchical data structure is skewed in favor of a range of key values.