Sam S. Lightstone
63Patents
12h-index
99Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 17, 1990 → Feb 28, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6453314B1 | System and method for selective incremental deferred constraint processing after bulk loading data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 131 | Expired |
| US6088705A | Method and apparatus for loading data into a database in a multiprocessor environment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 62 | Expired |
| US7028022B1 | Heuristic-based conditional data indexing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 39 | Expired |
| US9720602B1 | Data transfers in columnar data systems | Electricity | 33 | Active |
| US7447681B2 | Method, system and program for selection of database characteristics | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5206171A | Programmable automated inoculator/replicator | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 26 | Expired |
| US7917512B2 | Method for automated design of range partitioned tables for relational databases | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Active |
| US7499908B2 | Method for identifying a workload type for a given workload of database requests | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 24 | Expired |
| US7281004B2 | Method, system and program for optimizing compression of a workload processed by a database management system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US7137019B2 | Adaptive throttling system for data processing systems | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6961835B2 | System and method for autonomically reallocating memory among buffer pools | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US9519676B1 | Updating of in-memory synopsis metadata for inserts in database table | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7827608B2 | Data leak protection system, method and apparatus | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US7694102B2 | Systems and methods for self-tuning memory | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US9405858B2 | On-the-fly encoding method for efficient grouping and aggregation | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7051013B2 | Database diagnostic system and method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US7483873B2 | Method, system and article of manufacture for improving execution efficiency of a database workload | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Active |
| US7469329B2 | Methods for dynamically resizing memory pools | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US7346401B2 | Systems and methods for providing constrained optimization using adaptive regulatory control | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7739293B2 | Method, system, and program for collecting statistics of data stored in a database | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7401244B2 | Adaptive throttling system for computing systems | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9195599B2 | Multi-level aggregation techniques for memory hierarchies | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US8140516B2 | Method, system and article of manufacture for improving execution efficiency of a database workload | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US7502775B2 | Providing cost model data for tuning of query cache memory in databases | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US7363324B2 | Method, system and program for prioritizing maintenance of database tables | Physics | 4 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.