Ab Initio Technology Assigned Patent

Ab Initio Technology LLC, Lexington, MA, has been assigned a patent (9,235,505) developed by Khan, Muhammad Arshad, Sharon, MA, Rybicki, Stephen G., Boxborough, MA, and Gould, Joel, Arlington, MA, for a “managing memory and storage space for a data operation.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Processing a plurality of data units to generate result information, includes: performing a data operation for each data unit of a first subset of data units from the plurality of data units, and storing information associated with a result of the data operation in a first set of one or more data structures stored in working memory space of a memory device, after an overflow condition on the working memory space is satisfied, storing information in overflow storage space of a storage device, and repeating an overflow processing procedure multiple times during the processing of the plurality of data units, the overflow processing procedure including: updating a new set of one or more data structures stored in the working memory space using at least some information stored in the overflow storage space.“

The patent application was filed on May 16, 2014 (14/279,615).