SAS Institute Assigned Three Patents

Distributed data set storage and analysis reproducibility
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,684,544) developed by Bequet, Henry Gabriel Victor, Cary, NC, Arfaoui, Kais, Raleigh, NC, and Stogner, Ronald Earl, Cary, NC, for a “distributed data set storage and analysis reproducibility.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus includes a processor and a storage storing instructions causing the processor to: maintain a federated area, receive a request to perform a job flow with a data set from a remote device, retrieve a job flow definition specifying the tasks of the job flow from the federated area, determine whether there is an instance log in the federated area generated by a previous performance of the job flow with the data set, in response to there being such an instance log, retrieve the version specified in the instance log of each task routine for each task from the federated area, in response to there being no such instance log, retrieve the most recent version of each task routine, perform the job flow with the retrieved versions of the task routines and the data set to generate a result report, and provide the result report to the remote device.“

The patent application was filed on February 6, 2017 (15/425,886).

Distributed data set storage, retrieval and analysis
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,684,543) developed by Bequet, Henry Gabriel Victor, Cary, NC, Yang, Eric Jian, Morrisville, NC, Arfaoui, Kais, Raleigh, NC, and Stogner, Ronald Earl, Cary, NC, for a “distributed data set storage, retrieval and analysis.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus includes a processor and a storage storing instructions causing the processor to: maintain a federated area, receive a request to perform a job flow with a data set from a remote device, retrieve a job flow definition specifying the tasks of the job flow from the federated area, determine whether there is an instance log in the federated area generated by a previous performance of the job flow with the data set, in response to there being such an instance log, compare the version specified in the instance log of each task routine for each task to the most recent version stored in the federated area, and in response to each version specified in the instance log matching the most recent version, provide the remote device with access to a result report generated by the previous performance in lieu of generating a new result report.“

The patent application was filed on February 6, 2017 (15/425,749).

Creating bootable image in cloud-based computing environment
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,652,331) developed by Ibanescu, Mihai, Cary, NC, for a “techniques for creating a bootable image in a cloud-based computing environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for receiving a request to generate a bootable image in a cloud-based computing environment, creating a block storage volume in the cloud-based computing environment in response to receiving the request, the block storage volume having one or more partitions. Further, an apparatus, method and so forth may include installing software comprising one or more files in a file system on the block storage volume in the cloud-based computing environment, creating a snapshot of the file system including the software in the cloud-based computing environment, and creating a bootable image from the snapshot of the file system in the cloud-based computing environment.“

The patent application was filed on October 16, 2014 (14/515,623).