Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Eileen Tien Lin

36Patents
17h-index
29Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 25, 1994 → Aug 10, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6615203B1 Method, computer program product, and system for pushdown analysis during query plan generation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 110 Expired
US6009265A Program product for optimizing parallel processing of database queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 99 Expired
US5943666A Method and apparatus for optimizing queries across heterogeneous databases Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US5574900A System and method for optimizing parallel processing of database queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 80 Expired
US5768577A Performance optimization in a heterogeneous, distributed database environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Expired
US5590321A Push down optimization in a distributed, multi-database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 57 Expired
US6009428A System and method for providing a single application program interface for heterogeneous databases Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US5588150A Push down optimization in a distributed, multi-database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US8589382B2 Multi-fact query processing in data processing system Physics 43 Active
US6526403B1 Method, computer program product, and system for rewriting database queries in a heterogenous environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US6105017A Method and apparatus for deferring large object retrievals from a remote database in a heterogeneous database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US5903887A Method and apparatus for caching result sets from queries to a remote database in a heterogeneous database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Expired
US5706499A Functional compensation in a heterogeneous, distributed database environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US5903893A Method and apparatus for optimizing a merge-join operation across heterogeneous databases Physics 29 Expired
US7386841B2 Technique for determining a target data type in a heterogeneous multi-level environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US7464084B2 Method for performing an inexact query transformation in a heterogeneous environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active
US5943671A Compensation for security procedures in different database management systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5640555A Performance optimization in a heterogeneous, distributed database environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US5956727A Heterogeneous database system with data source extensibility and alteration of database functions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US7856462B2 System and computer program product for performing an inexact query transformation in a heterogeneous environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active
US5596748A Functional compensation in a heterogeneous, distributed database environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US7356526B2 Estimating the compilation time of a query optimizer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US5987465A System, method and computer program product for positioned update support Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US7076477B2 Fast and robust optimization of complex database queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US5930793A Performance optimization in a heterogeneous, distributed database environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired

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