Inventor · Milpitas, CA, US

Thomas A. Beavin

44Patents
11h-index
72Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 1, 1995 → Sep 13, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5721915A Interaction between application of a log and maintenance of a table that maps record identifiers during online reorganization of a database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 122 Expired
US6272487A Query optimization through the use of multi-column statistics to avoid the problems of non-indexed column correlation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 76 Expired
US6026412A Interaction between application of a log and maintenance of a table that maps record identifiers during online reorganization of a database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 67 Expired
US5940819A User specification of query access paths in a relational database management system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 62 Expired
US6571233B2 Optimization of SQL queries using filtering predicates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US5995957A Query optimization through the use of multi-column statistics to avoid the problems of column correlation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US7970756B2 Generalized partition pruning in a database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Active
US6081799A Executing complex SQL queries using index screening for conjunct or disjunct index operations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US6038569A System for data structure loading with concurrent image copy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US8930410B2 Query transformation for masking data within database objects Physics 14 Active
US7499917B2 Processing cross-table non-Boolean term conditions in database queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US6980981B2 Method, system, and program for selecting a join order for tables subject to a join operation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US7725448B2 Method and system for disjunctive single index access Physics 7 Active
US8060495B2 Query execution plan efficiency in a database management system Physics 6 Active
US7299225B2 High performance predicate push-down for non-matching predicate operands Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US8200657B2 Processing cross-table non-boolean term conditions in database queries Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US11386086B2 Permutation-based machine learning for database query optimization Physics 4 Active
US7461060B2 Generalized partition pruning in a database system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US9652497B2 Processing queries using hybrid access paths Physics 3 Active
US9256643B2 Technique for factoring uncertainty into cost-based query optimization Physics 3 Active
US9652498B2 Processing queries using hybrid access paths Physics 2 Active
US9134975B1 Determining which computer programs are candidates to be recompiled after application of updates to a compiler Physics 2 Active
US11010380B2 Minimizing processing using an index when non-leading columns match an aggregation key Physics 2 Active
US7376646B2 Cost-based subquery correlation and decorrelation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9519662B2 Boolean term conversion for null-tolerant disjunctive predicates Physics 1 Active

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