Chicago Mercantile Exchange Assigned Patent

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc., Chicago, IL, has been assigned a patent (8,984,033) developed by Meacham, Paul, Tinley Park, IL, Doornebos, Jacob, Riverside, IL, and Moran, James P., Hinsdale, IL, for a “non-indexed in-memory data storage and retrieval.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods and user interfaces that allow rapid storage and retrieval of trading data are provided. Trading data records are arranged as a non-indexed collection of data records. The physical location of trading data records stored in a computer-readable medium corresponds to the order that queries are performed. Queries may be performed by analyzing attributes of all of the trading data records, without speed limitations associated with indexed databases.“

The patent application was filed on September 23, 2005 (11/234,697).