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Robert W. Lyle

IBM: 52 patents #1,616 of 70,183Top 3%
YCYum Connect: 2 patents #4 of 42Top 10%
California: #6,949 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #47,296 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8903831 Rejecting rows when scanning a collision chain 2014-12-02
8903814 Indexing timestamp with time zone value Mengchu Cai, Yao-Ching Chen, Ruiping Li, Wei Li 2014-12-02
8898111 Enforcing temporal uniqueness of index keys utilizing key-valued locking in the presence of pseudo-deleted keys Ping-Chuan Wang 2014-11-25
8892515 Enforcing temporal uniqueness of index keys utilizing key-valued locking in the presence of pseudo-deleted keys Ping-Chuan Wang 2014-11-18
8386522 Technique to introduce advanced functional behaviors in a database management system without introducing new data types Curt L. Cotner, Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer, Krishnarao G. Kulkarni 2013-02-26
8180802 Extensible decimal identification system for ordered nodes Kevin Scott Beyer, Edison L. Ting 2012-05-15
7991771 Adaptive evaluation of text search queries with blackbox scoring functions Kevin Scott Beyer, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene J. Shekita 2011-08-02
7890482 System for controlling concurrent access to data in a database system Karelle Lynne Cornwell, Tanya Couch, James Zu-Chia Teng, Julie Ann Watts 2011-02-15
7647296 Method for estimating a first access time of transactions accessing a database object Michael J. Winer 2010-01-12
7480653 System and method for selective partition locking Karelle Lynne Cornwell, Tanya Couch, James Zu-Chia Teng, Julie Ann Watts 2009-01-20
7133885 Database management system using offsets in entries with at least one varying-length column Robert J. Hollines, III, Christina Marie Lee, Michael R. Shadduck, Julie Ann Watts 2006-11-07
7039646 Method and system for compressing varying-length columns during index high key generation Christina Marie Lee 2006-05-02
7013463 Latch mechanism for concurrent computing environments Aamer Sachedina, Michael J. Winer, Matthew A. Huras 2006-03-14
6754656 System and method for selective partition locking Karelle Lynne Cornwell, Barbara Tanya Couch, James Zu-Chia Teng, Julie Ann Watts 2004-06-22
6694340 Technique for determining the age of the oldest reading transaction with a database object James Zu-Chia Teng, Jay A. Yothers 2004-02-17
6651073 Method and apparatus for insuring database data integrity without data recovery logging James Zu-Chia Teng, Jay A. Yothers 2003-11-18
6606617 Optimized technique for prefetching LOB table space pages Charles R. Bonner 2003-08-12
6567928 Method and apparatus for efficiently recovering from a failure in a database that includes unlogged objects James Zu-Chia Teng, Jay A. Yothers 2003-05-20
6535895 Technique to avoid processing well clustered LOB's during reorganization of a LOB table space Charles R. Bonner 2003-03-18
6470359 Fast technique for recovering an index on an auxiliary table 2002-10-22
6366902 Using an epoch number to optimize access with rowid columns and direct row access Jay A. Yothers 2002-04-02
6363389 Technique for creating a unique quasi-random row identifier Jay A. Yothers 2002-03-26
6343286 Efficient technique to defer large object access with intermediate results Christina Marie Lee, Jay A. Yothers 2002-01-29
6343293 Storing the uncompressed data length in a LOB map to speed substring access within a LOB value 2002-01-29
6279004 Database index key versioning Christina Marie Lee, Stephen J. Schmandt, Hsiao-Ming Wang, Yufen Wang 2001-08-21