US 10,474,662 B2Granted

Method and system for database processing units

AssigneeUNICREDIT S.p.A.

InventorsRiccardo Prodam, Marcello Paris, Fabio Ramponi

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Abstract

An electronic processor including a programmable processing device and a processor, optimizes processing of data structures by carrying out operations on coded data in the data structures. The programmable processing device autonomously carries out predetermined basic operations on data structures, so that each basic operation is managed as a pre-programmed primitive operation. The processor receives flow of coded data belonging to a data structure, and an operation request on the coded data; then, recognizing the data structure of the received data flow and the requested operation; then, determining whether to perform the requested operation or have the programmable processing device carry out the requested operation. If performed by the programmable processing device, the processor sends coded data and information about the recognized data structure and requested operation to the programmable processing device. The requested operation is executed autonomously on the received data flow and a result is obtained.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method for optimized processing of data structures, by electronic processing means comprising a programmable processing device and at least one processor, by carrying out operations on coded data contained in the data structures, the method comprising the steps of:

programming the programmable processing device to carry out autonomously a predetermined plurality of basic operations on said data structures, so that each of said basic operations is managed as a pre-programmed primitive operation;
receiving in input, by the at least one processor, a flow of coded data belonging to one of said data structures, and a request of an operation on said coded data;
recognizing, by the at least one processor, the data structure of the received data flow and the requested operation;
determining, by the at least one processor, based on the received data structure and the requested operation, whether to carry out the requested operation or to get the programmable processing device to carry out the requested operation;
wherein, if a determination has been made to have the programmable processing device carry out the requested operation, the method comprises the further steps of:
sending to the programmable processing device the flow of coded data and information about the recognized data structure and the requested operation, by the at least one processor;
carrying out the requested operation on the received data flow, by the programmable processing device, autonomously, based on said pre-programmed basic operations;
providing, by the programmable processing device an obtained result;
wherein the recognizing step comprises classifying the requested operation as a:
basic operation;
non-basic operation to be assigned to the programmable processing device;
non-basic operation not to be assigned to the programmable processing device.

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A system for optimized processing of data structures, comprising:

data input configured to receive a flow of coded input data belonging to a data structure, and to receive a request of operation on said coded data;
electronic processing means, comprising:
at least one programmable processing device, configured to carry out autonomously a predetermined plurality of basic operations on said data structures, so that each of the basic operations is managed by the programmable processing device as a pre-programmed primitive operation;
at least one processor, operatively connected to the data input to receive said flow of coded data and said request of operation, and configured to recognize the received data structure and the requested operation and to determine, based on the recognized data structure and the requested operation, whether to carry out the requested operation or to have the programmable processing device carry out the requested operation;
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to send to the programmable processing device the flow of coded data and information about the recognized data structure and the requested operation, if a determination is made to assign the execution of the requested operation to the programmable processing device;
and wherein the programmable processing device is operatively connected to the at least one processor, to receive said flow of coded data and said information about the data structure and the operation, and the programmable processing device is configured to carry out the requested operation on the received data flow, and to provide an obtained result
wherein the at least one processor is configured to recognize the data structure by classification of the requested operation as a:
basic operation;
non-basic operation to be assigned to the programmable processing device;
non-basic operation not to be assigned to the programmable processing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/321,683Filed 23 Jun 2014
Published: US 2017/0161267 A18 Jun 2017
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 16/25
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
G06F 9/5044
The resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals: considering hardware capabilities
G06F 16/2237
Indexing structures: vectors, bitmaps or matrices
G06F 16/2246
Indexing structures: trees, e.g. B+trees