Inventor · Toronto, ON, CA

Sam S. Lightstone

63Patents
12h-index
99Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 17, 1990 → Feb 28, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.