Medallia Assigned Patent

Medallia, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,766,808) developed by Natvig, Thorvald, Palo Alto, CA, for a “expanding variable sub-column widths as needed to store data in memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A set of data storage values is received. It is determined that a data storage value in the set will not fit in an available memory segment including variable data column widths based at least in part on data sizes specified in a plurality of segment layout maps. A memory segment is selected for which a column width of a column will be expanded. A column width of the selected memory segment is expanded. A segment layout map corresponding to the selected memory segment is updated. The set of data storage values is stored in the selected memory segment.“

The patent application was filed on April 8, 2015 (14/681,478).