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Guy M. Lohman — 86 Patents

IBM: 86 patents #750 of 70,183Top 2%
San Jose, CA: #350 of 32,062 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,988 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #19,688 of 4,157,543Top 1%
86 Patents All Time

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Showing 51–75 of 86 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7774336 Adaptively reordering joins during query execution Kevin Scott Beyer, Latha Sankar Colby, Quanzhong Li, Volker Gerhard Markl, Minglong Shao 2010-08-10
7716215 System, method, and computer program product for progressive query processing Marki Volker, Mir Hamid Pirahesh, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen 2010-05-11
7636735 Method for estimating the cost of query processing Peter J. Haas, Vanja Josifovski, Chun Zhang 2009-12-22
7562090 System and method for automating data partitioning in a parallel database Nimrod Megiddo, Jun Rao, Chun Zhang 2009-07-14
7558425 Finding structures in multi-dimensional spaces using image-guided clustering Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Peter J. Haas, John Michael Lake 2009-07-07
7542954 Data classification by kernel density shape interpolation of clusters Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Peter J. Haas, John Michael Lake 2009-06-02
7542953 Data classification by kernel density shape interpolation of clusters Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Peter J. Haas, John Michael Lake 2009-06-02
7519227 Finding structures in multi-dimensional spaces using image-guided clustering Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Peter J. Haas, John Michael Lake 2009-04-14
7493319 Computer automated discovery of interestingness in faceted search Debabrata Dash, Nimrod Megiddo, Jun Rao 2009-02-17
7490110 Predictable query execution through early materialization Stephan Ewen, Holger Kache, Volker Gerhard Markl, Vijayshankar Raman 2009-02-10
7447681 Method, system and program for selection of database characteristics Sam S. Lightstone, William T. O'Connell, Jun Rao, Robin D. Van Boeschoten, Daniele Costante Zilio +1 more 2008-11-04
7412429 Method for data classification by kernel density shape interpolation of clusters Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Peter J. Haas, John Michael Lake 2008-08-12
7406200 Method and system for finding structures in multi-dimensional spaces using image-guided clustering Tanveer F. Syeda-Mahmood, Peter J. Haas, John Michael Lake 2008-07-29
7392250 Discovering interestingness in faceted search Debabrata Dash, Nimrod Megiddo, Jun Rao 2008-06-24
7383246 System, method, and computer program product for progressive query processing Marki Volker, Mir Hamid Pirahesh, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen 2008-06-03
7356526 Estimating the compilation time of a query optimizer Dengfeng Gao, Ihab Francis Ilyas, Eileen Tien Lin, Jun Rao 2008-04-08
7281004 Method, system and program for optimizing compression of a workload processed by a database management system Sam S. Lightstone, Ivan Popivanov, Jun Rao, Adam J. Storm, Daniele Costante Zilio 2007-10-09
7111025 Information retrieval system and method using index ANDing for improving performance Ian R. Finlay 2006-09-19
7085751 Query execution in query processing systems Ian R. Finlay, Bruce G. Lindsay, David C. Sharpe, Daniel C. Zilio 2006-08-01
7076477 Fast and robust optimization of complex database queries Eileen Tien Lin 2006-07-11
7007006 Method for recommending indexes and materialized views for a database workload Daniel C. Zilio, Gary Valentin, Calisto P. Zuzarte, Roberta Jo Cochrane, Hamid Pirahesh +6 more 2006-02-28
6993516 Efficient sampling of a relational database Peter J. Haas, Mir Hamid Pirahesh, David E. Simmen, Ashutosh Singh, Michael J. Winer +1 more 2006-01-31
6763359 Learning from empirical results in query optimization Michael Stillger, Volker Gerhard Markl 2004-07-13
6738755 Query optimization method for incrementally estimating the cardinality of a derived relation when statistically correlated predicates are applied Johann-Christoph Freytag, David E. Simmen, Calisto P. Zuzarte 2004-05-18
6732110 Estimation of column cardinality in a partitioned relational database Walid Rjaibi, Peter J. Haas 2004-05-04