Google Nails Its Data Record Analysis Method
September 18, 2009
Short honk: The ever reliable USPTO granted the Google US7,590,620 on September 15, 2009. The title is “System and Method for Analyzing Data Records”. The abstract for the invention by two Google super wizards (Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean) and a number of super wizards to be states:
A method and system for analyzing data records includes allocating groups of records to respective processes of a first plurality of processes executing in parallel. In each respective process of the first plurality of processes, for each record in the group of records allocated to the respective process, a query is applied to the record so as to produce zero or more values. Zero or more emit operators are applied to each of the zero or more produced values so as to add corresponding information to an intermediate data structure. Information from a plurality of the intermediate data structures is aggregated to produce output data.
Big deal in the addled goose’s opinion.
Stephen Arnold, September 17, 2009
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