Snowflake Assigned Patent

Snowflake Inc., San Mateo, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,719,517) developed by Li, Bing, Foster City, CA, Ma, Edward, San Jose, CA, Rui, Mingli, San Ramon, CA, Yu, Haowei, Newark, CA, and Zhan, Andong, San Mateo, CA , for a “distributed metadata-based cluster computing.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A shared database platform can interface with a cluster computing platform over a network through a connector. The data transferred over the network can include metadata result packages that can be distributed to worker nodes of the duster computing platform, which receive the metadata objects and access the result data for further processing on a staging platform, such as a scalable storage platform.”

The patent application was filed on December 18, 2019 (16/719,218).